Real Programmers

A form of Real Programmer — An archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of programming, instead preferring to use a manually-optimised low-level language or program directly in machine code for maximum performance.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Real Programmer
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