The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist one who specialises in making the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=tool">tools with which other programmers create applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than applications per se to understand why, see ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=uninteresting">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". [ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File]

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