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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- 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 22:36:23 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ia3gf$drf@solutions.solon.com> <4iclho$fpi@saba.info.ucla.edu>
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- In article <4iclho$fpi@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- >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".
-
- So the terms are being used wrong. As long as TNHD says otherwise,
- I'll consider it a definitive reference. :)
-
- Anyway, that completely misses the real point, which is that the main
- reason there are so many incompetent C programmers is that C is
- becoming a popular first language, and is one of the most widespread
- languages.
-
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