Meaning of code face | Babel Free

Definitions

The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).

informal

Examples

“[…] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face⟳ are even crawling.”

“Why is it that, everywhere we look⟳ in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face⟳ (as it were), we encounter this urge⟳ to apologize for the current techniques and to seek⟳ improvement?”

“This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get⟳ enough deserved blame⟳ in the Y2k aftermath; please⟳ don't incite undeserved blame⟳.”

“Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date⟳ the moment it's written, and difficult to write⟳ […]”

“Code craft starts at the codeface; it's where we love⟳ to be. We programmers are never happier than when immersed in an editor, bashing out line after line of perfectly formed and well-executed source code.”

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