language lawyer

n. A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is
intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and
features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer
programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to
show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-plus-page manual that
together imply the answer to your question if only you had thought to look
there. Compare wizard , legal , legalese.

