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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: 18 Mar 1996 06:33:07 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4ijl63$nd@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <4ia3gf$drf@solutions.solon.com> <4iik8r$asg@henry.netaxis.com>
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- In article <4iik8r$asg@henry.netaxis.com>,
- john p radigan <jradigan@davinci> wrote:
- >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.
-
- It's not deprecated until a standard mentions it as obsolescent. :)
-
- I don't think we should give up on that one; incompetents and fools should
- not be allowed to claim honorifics for themselves, and corrupt them. Look
- what's happened to politics... :)
-
- It's not like it's hard to use the word correctly, and it's proper respect
- for the elders that gave us the tools we have today.
-
- I mean, who can honestly claim Knuth *isn't* a hacker, in the traditional
- sense?
-
- -s
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- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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- The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html
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