superprogrammer
n. 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 3 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 endeavor.) 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.
