Superprogrammer
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 three 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 endeavour.
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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