code face
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.93 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
Informal
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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- "Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date the moment it's written, and difficult to write […]"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."