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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>code monkey</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="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="code-grinder.html" title="code grinder"/><link rel="next" href="Code-of-the-Geeks.html" title="Code of the Geeks"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">code monkey</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="code-grinder.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Code-of-the-Geeks.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="code-monkey"/><dt xmlns="" id="code-monkey"><b>code monkey</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A person only capable of grinding out code, but unable to perform
the higher-primate tasks of software architecture, analysis, and design.
Mildly insulting. Often applied to the most junior people on a programming
team. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Anyone who writes code for a living; a programmer. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A self-deprecating way of denying responsibility for a
<a href="../M/management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a> decision, or of complaining about having
to live with such decisions. As in &#8220;<span class="quote">Don't ask me why we need to
write a compiler in COBOL, I'm just a code monkey.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="code-grinder.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Code-of-the-Geeks.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">code grinder </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Code of the Geeks</td></tr></table></div></body></html>