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- From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li Cheuk-wing)
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Message-ID: <DoG9C9.391@byron.net4.io.org>
- Organization: some non-organization in Scarborough, Canada (running C News CR.E, NNTP 1.5.12)
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:14:33 GMT
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ia3gf$drf@solutions.solon.com> <4iclho$fpi@saba.info.ucla.edu>
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- On 15 Mar 1996 20:56:24 GMT, in article <4iclho$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". I don't make these things up, you are just behind the times.
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- Maybe you are *also* behind the times. I and many people I know still
- use the word "hacker" in the non-derogatory sense.
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- Ambrose Li ~{@h>tHY~} A good style should show no sign of effort;
- acli%byron.net4@io.org What is written should seem a happy accident.
- ai337@freenet.toronto.on.ca - Somerset Maugham
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