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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>toolsmith</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toolchain.html" title="toolchain"/><link rel="next" href="toor.html" title="toor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">toolsmith</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toolchain.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="toolsmith"/><dt xmlns="" id="toolsmith"><b>toolsmith</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
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specializes in making the <a href="tool.html"><i class="glossterm">tool</i></a>s with which other
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programmers create applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than
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applications per se; to understand why, see
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<a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a>. Jon Bentley, in the
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“<span class="quote">Bumper-Sticker Computer Science</span>” chapter of his book
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<i class="citetitle">More Programming Pearls</i>, quotes Dick Sites from
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<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> as saying “<span class="quote">I'd rather write programs to
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write programs than write programs</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toolchain.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toolchain </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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