The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
specializes in making the {tool}s 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".
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