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toolsmith: n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
specializes in making the tools with which other
programmers create applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than
applications per se; to understand why, see
uninteresting. Jon Bentley, in the
“Bumper-Sticker Computer Science” chapter of his book
More Programming Pearls, quotes Dick Sites from
DEC as saying “I'd rather write programs to
write programs than write programs”.
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