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- From: jradigan@davinci (john p radigan)
- 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
- Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 03:11:23 GMT
- Organization: NetAxis - Your link to the Internet!
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- Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote:
- :Sez you. So, if I post saying "beware of Idiots named Jay, and you point out
- :(correctly) that you're not an idiot, does it improve things any for me to say
- :"this is a primitive and obsolete reference to olden days when there were cool
- :people named Jay. Any use of the name Jay is now at best ambiguous (can mean
- :politicians, etc.) and mostly negative."? No, it doesn't. If you've misused
- :a term, you should aplogize, and use a term that *actually* means what you
- :want to say.
-
- Times change, even "aspirin" was a trademarked term once. Might as well face
- it and give up the ghost, the original usage of "hacker" is essentially a
- deprecated term today.
-
- -jack-
-