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From: orel@yale-com.UUCP (Matthew R. Orel)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Changing meaning of term "hacker"
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Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 13:24:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 13:24:50 1983
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	In Tuesday's New York Times, there is a rather interesting definition
of "hack."  For anybody who is interested, the article appears on page C4
of the September 13 issues, and is written by Erik Sandberg-Diment.
To summarize, the author notes that hack has several meanings, among them
being a type of foul in basketball, and that all of these meanings have
negative connotations.  "soleave it to compueterese," he continues, "to
invert the emotions and raise the term 'hacker' to a pedestal of the highest
acclaim."  Hackers are also capable of "intense bursts of program writing
called 'hack attacks...'"  The author also notes that Harper & Row is planning
to release a book called "The Hacker's Dictionary" sometime this year...
	Maybe they'll have to change the title in N.J.
		-- Matt Orel
		decvax!yale-comix!orel