From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,44cbdb49f88ea423 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr24.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!42387a04!not-for-mail From: Stan Milam User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Another article involving Ada on /. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.252.208 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr24.news.prodigy.com 1088475618 ST000 68.94.252.208 (Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:20:18 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:20:18 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: [[PAPDCA[S@UC\\XGBHF_PTDFRYB@GXLN@GZ_GYO^BVNDQUBLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:20:18 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1989 Date: 2004-06-29T02:20:18+00:00 List-Id: 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.