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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.
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