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toolsmith
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes
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2014-07-26 07:53:53 +00:00
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in making the tools with which other programmers create applications. Many
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hackers consider this more fun than applications per se; to understand why,
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see uninteresting. Jon Bentley, in the Bumper-Sticker Computer Science
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chapter of his book More Programming Pearls , quotes Dick Sites from DEC as
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saying I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs.
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