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• oolsmith n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die speciali
  one who specializes in making the tools with which other programmers create applications....
• 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....
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• Real computer scientists don't write code. They occasionally tinker with `programming systems', but those are so high level that they hardly count (and rarely count accurately
  precision is for applications.)...
• Real programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for wimpy applications programmers.
• dBase is the non-programming language in which non- programmers write non-program