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From: garey@tekid.UUCP (Garey Fouts)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: 'Hacker' and software persons
Message-ID: <1556@tekid.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 22:32:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 22:32:14 1983
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	Since when did the term 'hacker' ever have a good meaning?

	It has (in the computer industry) always been a term for a
sloppy programmer or a computer nerd still in school. Professional
software folk take their work seriously.

	Would you want to live on the 50th floor of a building designed
by someone who considered her/himself an architecture hacker?

	Perhaps when the likes of 'hackers' take themselves seriously,
the media will take them seriously.


		Garey Fouts