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名詞

Real Programmer (複数形 Real Programmers)

1. (computing, slang) An archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of programming, instead preferring to use a manually-optimised low-level language or program directly in machine code for maximum performance.
   • 1995, Andrew Davison, Humour the Computer, MIT Press (ISBN 9780262540759), page 50

     Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because ...

   • 2002, Julian Templeman, Andy Olsen, Microsoft Visual C++.NET Step by Step (ISBN 9780735615670), page 618

     Julian Templeman first touched fingers to keypunch in 1972, punching Fortran code onto cards at college in London. Soon after, he moved on to Macro- 11 programming on PDP-11s. This qualifies him as a Real Programmer, and until recently, he had a PDP-11 in his garage to remind him of better times.

   • 2003, John Ray, William Ray, Mac OS X Maximum Security, Sams Publishing (ISBN 9780672323812), page 56

     Interdicted Real Programmer. Not someone you want to get in the way of, he's usually the best programmer on a project, and he's usually annoyed because management has stuck yet another stupid wall between him and getting his job done.

   • 2011, Kevin B. Bennett, John M. Flach, Display and Interface Design: Subtle Science, Exact Art, CRC Press (ISBN 9781420064391), page 110

     The Real Programmer wants a “you asked for it, you got it” text editor; one that is complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, and dangerous. TECO, to be precise.

外部リンク

• "Real Programmer" in the Jargon File