Toolsmith




The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specialises 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".

[Jargon File]





< Previous Terms Terms Containing toolsmith Next Terms >
toolbook
Toolbuilder
Tool Builder Kit
Tool Command Language
TOOLS
 Charles Babbage
manularity
My Favourite Toy Language
TeX
uninteresting
 TOP
top-down design
Top-Down Model
topic drift
topic group