Re: Misconception about Ada?

["Robert Deininger" <rdeininger@mindspring.com>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 8:20 PM, Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:
>On 11 Feb 2001 18:30:30 -0500, Robert Deininger wrote:
>
>>Speak up, Ada hackers!  
>
>Which is another point. The hacker definition is hopeless in the sense
>that all media use it for cracker, so people who do not know more than
>what the media writes thinks linux and the like are done buy a bunch of
>criminals :-( Anyway one can argue, from the definition of a hacker,
>that a cracker is a hacker that is good at breaking into systems.

I wasn't thinking so much in terms of the media's use of "hacker".  To  me,
on some ill-specified scale of programming philosophy, "software engineer"
is near one end of the scale, and "hacker" is near the other.  If someone
says Ada isn't much of a hacker language, I might tend to agree.

If this guy writes a book by, of, and for hackers, I won't want a copy.


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Robert Deininger
rdeininger@mindspring.com