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- From: Jim Fafrak <jfafrak@lovelace.com>
- 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: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:49:56 -0700
- Organization: Lovelace Health Systems
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- Ambrose Li Cheuk-wing wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Maybe you are *also* behind the times. I and many people I know still
- > use the word "hacker" in the non-derogatory sense.
- >
- > --
- > 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
-
- As with many words in the english language 'hacker' has many
- definitions. I am in agreement with Ambrose and use it in the
- non derogatory sense. To me hacker == problem solver.
-