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- From: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 20:56:24 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
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- seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
-
- >In article <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- >Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- >>seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
- >>Your jargon file is bullshit (obsolete). Comes from primitive times
- >>when coding wizardry was cool. Anything with "hack" in it is now at
- >>best ambiguous (can mean cracking,etc) and mostly negative.
-
- >Sez you.
- ...
- >"The meaning of frog in this discussion is a kind of rodent." I'm sorry, but
- >You Can't Do That. Playing fast and loose with English is no better a
- >practice than playing fast and loose with a programming language. If you
- >want to communicate with people, it's best to use the *existing* meanings of
- >words.
-
- Go read Robert Martin's repost of what started this thread and the
- bloody title of this thread! "C Hacker" and Hacker are being used in
- quite disparaging ways. Hacker as a term has in general become a
- quite negative term meaning either poor programmers or criminal
- "crackers". I don't make these things up, you are just behind the times.
-
- Jay
-