i dont have much contact with that part of the programming world (although i work in a web dev office atm) - every time i've heard it used its to refer to a pro

i dont have much contact with that part of the programming world (although i work in a web dev office atm) - every time i've heard it used its to refer to a programmer working on performance critical desktop software or AAA games... that's the opposite end of the spectrum pretty much.