From: Stan Milam <stmilam@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: Another article involving Ada on /.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:20:18 GMT
Date: 2004-06-29T02:20:18+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <m3lli7p8pr.fsf@0x5358cece.boanxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk>
Mark Lorenzen wrote:
> For me "hacker" is a derogatory term.
>
Goodness, I cannot count the times in 20 years of programming I've been
given a leviathian of a program(s) with no documentation and told to
"fix it or else...." That means hacking through thousands of lines of
code to figure out what is going on. I have made a career of hacking
through broken code to figure out what the heck it did and fix it. I'm
proud of the term "hacker," but I would be leery of the term "cracker."
Regards,
Stan Milam.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-28 19:48 Another article involving Ada on / Mark Lorenzen
2004-06-28 22:03 ` Xenos
2004-06-28 23:04 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-28 23:24 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-06-28 23:43 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-06-29 2:05 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-29 2:20 ` Stan Milam [this message]
2004-06-29 8:42 ` Mark Lorenzen
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