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From: dave@rlgvax.UUCP (Dave Maxey)
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Subject: Re: "Hack" is a sacred word?
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 02:22:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 21 02:22:33 1983
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Our office dictionary (Webster's Ninth NEW Collegiate Dictionary) also adds
these definitions:

2hack n 1: an implement for hacking
3hack n 3: one who forfeits individual freedom or professional integrity
in exchange for wages or other assured reward; esp: a writer who works
mainly for hire.
4hack vt 1: to make trite and commonplace by frequent and indiscriminate
use.
5hack adj 1: working for hire esp. with loose or easy professional standards.

Hmmmm. I believe I also prefer words such as were mentioned in the foregoing
article: "craft" and "engineer", but tell me please... what ever happened to:

				Programmer

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			- Dave Maxey (alias tbm)
			{seismo,mcnc,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!dave