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• oolsmith: n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die speciali
  one who specializes in making the {tool}s with which other programmers create applications....
• Real programmers don't write applications programs, they program right down to the BARE METAL.
  Applications programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming....
• Real programmers don't program in LISP. Any language with more parenthesis than actual code is for airheaded wienies who can't write real programs.
• dBase is the non-programming language in which non- programmers write non-program
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• 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, instead of only a line at a time....
• DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
  Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
• Real software engineers don't write applications programs, they implement algorithms.
  If someone has an application that the algorithm might help with, that's nice....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....