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sysprog

noun

Etymology

Blend of system + programmer.

  1. derived from πρόγραμμα
  2. derived from programma
  3. borrowed from programme
  4. formed as programmer — “program + -er”
  5. compounded as sysprog — “system + programmer”

Definitions

  1. A systems programmer.

    • The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sysprog. 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