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.