card walloper

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

card walloper

   <jargon> An {EDP} programmer who grinds out {batch programs}
   that do things like print people's paychecks.  Compare {code
   grinder}.

   See also {punched card}, {eighty-column mind}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (2003-09-20)