| 释义 |
toolsmith toolsmithThe software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one whospecialises in making the tools with which other programmerscreate applications. Many hackers consider this more fun thanapplications per se; to understand why, see uninteresting.Jon Bentley, in the "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" chapterof his book "More Programming Pearls", quotes Dick Sites fromDEC as saying "I'd rather write programs to write programsthan write programs". |