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superprogrammer
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n. A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and quickly. Not
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all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are. (Productivity can vary from
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one programmer to another by three orders of magnitude. For example, one
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programmer might be able to write an average of 3 lines of working code in
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one day, while another, with the proper tools, might be able to write 3,000.
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This range is astonishing; it is matched in very few other areas of human
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endeavor.) The term superprogrammer is more commonly used within such places
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as IBM than in the hacker community. It tends to stress naive measures of
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productivity and to underweight creativity, ingenuity, and getting the job
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done and to sidestep the question of whether the 3,000 lines of code do more
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or less useful work than three lines that do the Right Thing. Hackers tend
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to prefer the terms hacker and wizard.
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