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Code of the Geeks
code monkey n
1. A person only capable of grinding out
code, but unable to perform the higher-primate tasks of software
architecture, analysis, and design. Mildly insulting. Often
applied to the most junior people on a programming team. 2. Anyone
who writes code for a living; a programmer. 3. A self-deprecating
way of denying responsibility for a management decision, or of
complaining about having to live with such decisions. As in
"Don't ask me why we need to write a compiler in COBOL, I'm just a
code monkey."
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.
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