Related Terms. A Rapid Application Development (RAD) system developed by Borland International, Inc. Delphi is similar to Visual Basic from Microsoft, but whereas Visual Basic is based on the BASIC programming language, Delphi is based on Pascal.
A parameter is a numerical value that states something about the entire population being studied. For example, we may want to know the mean wingspan of the American bald eagle. This is a parameter because it is describing all of the population. Parameters are difficult if not impossible to obtain exactly.
Parameters in C functions. A Parameter is the symbolic name for data that goes into a function. There are two ways to pass parameters in C: Pass by Value, Pass by Reference. Pass by Value Pass by Value, means that a copy of the data is made and stored by way of the name of the parameter.