language lawyer n.
A person, usually an experienced or
senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or
most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and
esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages.
A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the
five sentences scattered through a 200-plus-page manual that
together imply the answer to your question "if only you had
thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal,
legalese.
A person, usually an experienced or
senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or
most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and
esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages.
A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the
five sentences scattered through a 200-plus-page manual that
together imply the answer to your question "if only you had
thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal,
legalese.
Related:
- language lawyer: n. A person, usually an experienced or senior
software engineer,
who is intimately familiar with many or most of ... - legal adj.
Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the
relevant rules',
esp. in connection with some set of constraints ... - legal: adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the
relevant rules',
esp. in connection with some set of constraints ... - INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n.
[said by the authors to stand
for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer
language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer... - HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n.
MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
A legendary collection of neat mathematical and... - MFTL /M-F-T-L/
[abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language']
1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design... - UNIX Shell is the Best Fourth Generation Programming Language
It is the UNIX shell that makes it possible to do applications in a small
fraction of the code and time it takes in third generation languages.
In the shell you process whole files at a time... - TeX /tekh/ n.
An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by
Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community... - bigot n.
[common] A person who is religiously attached to a
particular computer,
language, operating system, editor, or other tool...
From the same category:
- weasel n.
[Cambridge] A naive user, one who deliberately or
accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised.
Roughly synonymous with loser... - BUAF // n.
[abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big
Ugly ASCII Font -
a special form of ASCII art. Various programs exist... - distribution n.
1. A software source tree packaged for
distribution;
but see kit. Since about 1996 unqualified use of... - Exploder n.
Used within Microsoft to refer to the
Windows Explorer,
the interface component of Windows 95 and WinNT ... - megapenny /meg'*-pen`ee/ n.
$10,000 (1 cent *
10^6).
Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer...
