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Pretty sure they mean arcana like the nitty gritty of how to parse a function pointer declaration in c (from reading the spec, which is written like law). Could
by wheybags 4y ago
Pretty sure they mean arcana like the nitty gritty of how to parse a function pointer declaration in c (from reading the spec, which is written like law). Could be wrong though.
- noduerme 4y agoI didn't read it as lawyering of C code... maybe I misunderstood that. If that's the case I'd retract my statement. I thought they meant other engineers using "lawyering" skills ...(logical communication)... to convince a manager to take one architectural path over another.
- greenyoda 4y agoThat's correct. It's a reference to Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month[1], in which the term "language lawyer" was used to refer to someone who knows all the details about the specs of a programming language. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month