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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
language lawyer
A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer,
who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous
restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric)
applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A
language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you
the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that
together imply the answer to your question "if only you had
thought to look there".
Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
[{Jargon File]
(1995-02-15)
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]
language lawyer n. A person, usually an experienced or senior software
engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous
restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one
or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is
distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered
through a 200-plus-page manual that together imply the answer to your
question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard,
legal, legalese.