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Lint(1) Is The Compiler's Only Means Of Dampening The Programmer's Ego.
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lint(1) is the compiler's only means of dampening the programmer's ego.
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code monkey n 1. A person only capable of grinding out code, but unable to perform the higher-primate tasks of software architecture, analysis, and design.
Mildly insulting. Often applied to the most junior people on a programming team....
jock n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat brute-force programs.
See brute force. 2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area....
jock: n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat brute-force programs.
See {brute force}. 2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area....
lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
dead code: n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....
Real Programmers Collect Lint.
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
-- Guy L. Steele, Jr., Tartan Laboratorie...
There's only one thing that can keep growing without nourishme
he human ego. -- Marshall Lumsde...