superprogrammer
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
super- + programmer
Noun[edit]
superprogrammer (plural superprogrammers)
- A particularly skilful computer programmer.
- 1982, Perry Edwards, Bruce Broadwell, Data processing: computers in action:
- The question is: how does one become a superprogrammer?
- 1984, David King, Current practices in software development: a guide to successful systems:
- The superprogrammer of the 1960s was that person who could make the lights blink fastest on the system console.
- 1993, R W Lucky, Lucky strikes...again:
- One such superprogrammer, when asked how a particular project could be accelerated, stated matter-of-factly that it was only necessary to fire 90% of the present programming staff.