Real Programmer

English Alternative forms en real programmer Noun Real Programmer en computing slang An archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of programming, instead preferring to use a manually-optimised low-level language or program directly in machine code for maximum performance. en 1995 Andrew Davison Humour the Computer 50 MIT Press 9780262540759 Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because ... en 2002 Julian Templeman; Andy Olsen Microsoft Visual C++.NET Step by Step 618 9780735615670 Julian Templeman first touched fingers to keypunch in 1972, punching Fortran code onto cards at college in London. Soon after, he moved on to Macro- 11 programming on PDP-11s. This qualifies him as a Real Programmer, and until recently, he had a PDP-11 in his garage to remind him of better times. en 2003 John Ray; William Ray Mac OS X Maximum Security 56 Sams Publishing 9780672323812 Interdicted Real Programmer. Not someone you want to get in the way of, he's usually the best programmer on a project, and he's usually annoyed because management has stuck yet another stupid wall between him and getting his job done. en 2011 Kevin B. Bennett; John M. Flach Display and Interface Design: Subtle Science, Exact Art 110 CRC Press 9781420064391 The Real Programmer wants a “you asked for it, you got it” text editor; one that is complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, and dangerous. TECO, to be precise. Translations archetype of low-level programmer Further reading