language lawyer

language lawyer

A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer,who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerousrestrictions and features (both useful and esoteric)applicable to one or more computer programming languages. Alanguage lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show youthe five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual thattogether imply the answer to your question "if only you hadthought to look there".

Compare wizard, legal, legalese.