sysprog
nounEtymology Blend of system + programmer.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Colloquial, Dated 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.2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19: