toolsmith
 n.

    The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes
    in making the tools with which other programmers create applications.
    Many hackers consider this more fun than applications per se; to understand
    why, see uninteresting. Jon Bentley, in the ?Bumper-Sticker Computer
    Science? chapter of his book More Programming Pearls, quotes Dick Sites
    from DEC as saying ?I'd rather write programs to write programs than
    write programs?.

	

	toolsmith

   The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who
   specialises in making the tools with which other programmers
   create applications.  Many hackers consider this more fun than
   applications per se; to understand why, see uninteresting.
   Jon Bentley, in the "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" chapter
   of his book "More Programming Pearls", quotes Dick Sites from
   DEC as saying "I'd rather write programs to write programs
   than write programs".

   [Jargon File]