A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and quickly.
Not all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are. (Productivity can
vary from one programmer to another by three orders of magnitude. For
example, one programmer might be able to write an average of 3 lines
of working code in one day, while another, with the proper tools,
might be able to write 3,000. This range is astonishing; it is
matched in very few other areas of human endeavor.) The term
superprogrammer is more commonly used within such places as IBM than
in the hacker community. It tends to stress naive measures of
productivity and to underweight creativity, ingenuity, and getting
the job done -- and to sidestep the question of whether the 3,000
lines of code do more or less useful work than three lines that do
the {Right Thing}. Hackers tend to prefer the terms {hacker} and
{wizard}.
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