codewalker

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codewalker - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  codewalker
  
     <programming, tool> A program component that analyses other
     programs.  Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends;
     so do cross-reference generators and some database front
     ends.  Other utility programs that try to do too much with
     source code may turn into codewalkers.  As in "This new
     'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-12-23)
  

codewalker - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  codewalker
   n.
  
     A program component that traverses other programs for a living.
     Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference
     generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that
     try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in
     "This new vgrind feature would require a codewalker to implement."