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