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Real Programmers

Real Programmers is the plural of Real Programmer.

Meaning of Real Programmer

Noun

Real Programmer (plural Real Programmers)

  1. (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.
    • 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 ...1995, Andrew Davison, Humour the Computer, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 50

Questions about Real Programmers

What is Real Programmers the plural of?
Real Programmers is the plural of Real Programmer.

Words near Real Programmers in the dictionary

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