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code face

code face noun: the place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).

Noun

code face (plural code faces)

  1. (informal) The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
    • […] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling.1992, Patrick A V Hall, Software reuse and reverse engineering in practice
    • Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face (as it were), we encounter this urge...1992, Derek Partridge, Engineering artificial intelligence software

Forms of code face

pluralcode faces
alternative formcodeface

Origin of code face

Blend of code + coalface.

Questions about code face

What does code face mean?
Code face means the place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
What part of speech is code face?
Code face is a noun.
What is the plural of code face?
The plural of code face is code faces.

Words near code face in the dictionary

  1. code completion
  2. code completions
  3. code coverage
  4. code duello
  5. code enforcement
  6. code face
  7. code faces
  8. code fence
  9. code file
  10. code files
  11. code folding

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