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.
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