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programmer|ˈprəʊgræmə(r)|
Also (rare) programer.
[f. program, programme n. or v. + -er1.]
1. One who programmes, in various senses, as:
a. (s.v. program, programme v.)
b. One who devises a course of programmed instruction.
c. One who plans or chooses programmes for broadcasting.
d. One who arranges something according to a programme.
1890Cent. Dict. s.v., The official programmer of the Jockey Club. 1958Science 24 Oct. 971/1 The machine itself..is a labor-saving device because it can bring one programmer into contact with an indefinite number of students. 1966Listener 27 Jan. 147/2 It is one of the unwritten laws of programming that even if the same-only-different is to be served up it must be loudly proclaimed to be different; that at least convinces the programmers. 1966Punch 27 July 146/1 It was Baden Powell who revolutionised the process of growing up... Even his most grudging admirers must admit that he was an improvement on witch doctors and tribal elders as a programmer of boys' spare time. 1975J. De Bres tr. Mandel's Late Capitalism vii. 236 The only means at the disposal of late capitalist economic programmers for the correction of actual development when they deviate from predictions, is State intervention in the economy. 1977Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 16/6 Using a computer device..they can let the programmers know, while the show is in progress, that they are unhappy with what they are viewing as television entertainment. If they are in the majority, it will be taken off the air and replaced by something else. 1978Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 1c/1 One programer at ABC believes that the show will help ABC's image among those who for religious or other reasons, hold ABC and TV in general responsible for moral decay.
e. spec. One who writes computer programs.
1948Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation III. 45 Magnitudes of numbers at each step have to be studied by the programmer..to avoid exceeding capacity in other operations. 1951Electronic Engin. XXIII. 140/1 Most machines print the results of computations at the will of the programmer by means of some electromechanical device. 1958Oxf. Mag. 29 May 469/1 Numerical analysts and programmers are in great demand in the laboratories of government and industry. 1968N. Chapin 360 Programing in Assembly Lang. vi. 139 A compiler program causes the computer to accept as input the source program the programer has written... The computer translates the source program..and produces the object program. 1974Maclean's Mag. (Toronto) Jan. 44/3 As any programmer will tell you, a computer is merely as good as the data fed into it. 1980R. McCrum In Secret State iii. 12 Quitman was not a trained programmer, but he had been given the standard course in basic computer access methods.
2. = programme picture s.v. program, programme n. 4.
1936Movie Mirror Feb. 118/2 Frisco Waterfront... A better-than-average programmer that brings Rod La Rocque back to American films. 1939Motion Picture Herald 11 Nov. 56/1 Very ordinary programmer. It is so simply told as to fail to arouse much for or against criticism. 1974Radio Times 14 Feb. 9/3 When..Montgomery directed this Guadalcanal actionflick, everybody hoped it would certainly be a handsome cut above its other gun-toting rival Guadalcanal Diary made in 1943 without the benefit of real locations or scriptwriters. Instead the result was a routine action programmer with Cagney in rather restrained mood.
3. A device that automatically controls the operation of something in accordance with a prescribed programme; in quot. 1945 a part of an early electronic computer analogous to the control unit of later ones.
1945J. P. Eckert et al. Description of ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. of Pennsylvania) b–2 The use of the master programmer is being stressed since it is the mechanism in the ENIAC which enables one to link the simple sequences of instructions given the other units of the computer into a complex whole. 1962J. Glenn in Into Orbit 143 During the powered phase of flight..an electronic programmer inside the Atlas would guide it along the prescribed path. 1968McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 59 Until the mid-1950s this automation was in the form of special machines with mechanical programmers (cams, levers, and stops, operating in conjunction with powered lead screws) or tracer mechanisms, which cause the cutting tool to follow a path described by simultaneously moving a ‘feeler’ over a model of the part to be made. 1968Which? Guide to Central Heating 73/1 A programmer is basically a more versatile time switch, which gives you independent control over your room heating and water heating. 1973Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 11/4 If you go out for a few hours turn down the room thermostat or adjust your boiler programmer. |