language lawyer
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-page manual that together imply the answer to your
question "if only you had thought to look there".
Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-15)
Nearby terms:
Language for Communicating Systems « Language for
the On-Line Investigation and Transformation of
Abstractions « Language H « language lawyer »
Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification »
Language Sensitive Editor » language-sensitive
editor
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