language lawyer

2 definitions found

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

  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)
  

language lawyer - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  language lawyer
   n.
  
     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-plus-page manual that together imply the answer to your question
     "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal,
     legalese.