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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Bad news for hackers
Message-ID: <1142@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 04:09:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 04:09:24 1984
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I'd always thought that a hacker was a person on a computer who
wasn't really a programmer, i.e, someone who knows quite a bit
about the system, but doesn't necessarily write the best code
imaginable.  I am mostly a hacker (on Twenex more so than UNIX),
although I'm starting to become a hacker-programmer (sounds sort
of like "fighter-magic user, huh?).  Most of the people I hang
around with are in this category.  I'm not sure if I understand
how people become pure programmers.  I know it isn't through
taking classes, because all of the people who were taking a
course on the 20 this term (who hadn't been hackers) really
lost badly when it came to writing good programs.
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh