A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is
intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions
and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more
computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by
the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a
200-plus-page manual that together imply the answer to your question
"if only you had thought to look there". Compare {wizard}, {legal},
{legalese}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {C++}{legal}{legalese}{quote chapter and verse}]