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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>superprogrammer</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="superloser.html" title="superloser"/><link rel="next" href="superuser.html" title="superuser"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">superprogrammer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="superloser.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="superuser.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="superprogrammer"/><dt xmlns="" id="superprogrammer"><b>superprogrammer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and
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quickly. Not all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are.
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(Productivity can vary from one programmer to another by three orders of
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magnitude. For example, one programmer might be able to write an average
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of 3 lines of working code in one day, while another, with the proper
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tools, might be able to write 3,000. This range is astonishing; it is
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matched in very few other areas of human endeavor.) The term <span class="firstterm">superprogrammer</span> is more commonly used within
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such places as IBM than in the hacker community. It tends to stress naive
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measures of productivity and to underweight creativity, ingenuity, and
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getting the job <span class="emphasis"><em>done</em></span> — and to sidestep the
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question of whether the 3,000 lines of code do more or less useful work
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than three lines that do the <a href="../R/Right-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Right Thing</i></a>. Hackers
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tend to prefer the terms <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a> and
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<a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="superloser.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="superuser.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">superloser </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> superuser</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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