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code face

noun

Etymology

Blend of code + coalface.

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. compounded as coalface — “coal + face”
  6. compounded as code face — “code + coalface”

Definitions

  1. The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas…

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

    • […] 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for code face. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA