meaning of tools

1. TOOLS Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems toolsmith The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specialises in making the tools with which other programmers create applications. Many hackers consider this more fun than applications per se; to understand why, see uninteresting. Jon Bentley, in the "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" chapter of his book "More Programming Pearls", quotes Dick Sites from DEC as saying "Id rather write programs to write programs than write programs". [Jargon File] TOP Technical/Office Protocol top-down design Or "stepwise refinement". The software design technique which aims to describe functionality at a very high level, then partition it repeatedly into more detailed levels one level at a time until the detail is sufficient to allow coding. This approach to software design probably originated at IBM, and grew out of structured programming practices.

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