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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re:hackers and other changing terms
Message-ID: <323@hound.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 08:46:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 08:46:55 1983
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If those "lovable galoots*" really didn't care much for the
pronouncements of pedants, they wouldn't be so excited about
the recent teapot tempest over "hacker."  By the way, I think
"hacker" was a term of approbation inside the profession of
newspaper writing before the computer hacks picked it up.
                      -Dick Grantges  hound!rfg
* galoot - Slang. An uncouth, awkward fellow.  Websters Collegiate
Dictionary - Fifth Edition, 1949.
"... but I shot the galoot when he started to shoot 
electricity into my walls."   Robert W. Service