from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
toolsmith
n.
The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
specializes in making the {tool}s with which other programmers create
applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than applications
per se; to understand why, see {uninteresting}. Jon Bentley, in the
"Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" chapter of his book More Programming
Pearls, quotes Dick Sites from {DEC} as saying "I'd rather write
programs to write programs than write programs".
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
toolsmith
The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
specialises in making the {tools} with which other programmers
create applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than
applications per se; to understand why, see {uninteresting}.
Jon Bentley, in the "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" chapter
of his book "More Programming Pearls", quotes Dick Sites from
DEC as saying "I'd rather write programs to write programs
than write programs".
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