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Article #4931Re: Real programmers program in machine code
From: nra... Daniel Briggs
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 18:02
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 18:02
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In article <1990Oct4.0...@specialix.co.uk> jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes: >>In article <47...@lure.latrobe.edu.au> CC...@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Mark >>Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.) re-entered the classic saga >>of Mel, the virtuoso hacker. > ^^^^^^^^ >How dare you call my hero a hacker! Methinks we have a small communications problem here. Your hero was being complimented. C'mon, if we can't use the word 'hacker' *here*, in its original pre media distorted sense, where *can* we use it? This is probably the largest single body of people around who used the word back when there was still a difference between hacker & muncher/cracker/crasher/(your local slang here). Heck, I *still* call myself a hacker quite proudly, although it does earn me some odd looks from the relative newbies to the computer field. -- This is a shared guest account, please send replies to dbr...@nrao.edu (Internet) Dan Briggs / NRAO / P.O. Box O / Socorro, NM / 87801 (U.S. Snail)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!nmt.edu!nraoaoc From: nra...@nmt.edu (Daniel Briggs) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Real programmers program in machine code Message-ID: <1990Oct4.180217.21686@nmt.edu> Date: 4 Oct 90 18:02:17 GMT References: <4723@lure.latrobe.edu.au> <1570@front.se> <1990Oct4.075039.23211@specialix.co.uk> Reply-To: dbr...@nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM Lines: 20 Posted: Thu Oct 4 19:02:17 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit