From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Britannica on Ada
Date: 2000/03/03
Date: 2000-03-03T07:52:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.1000303094847.128544A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 89mkii$4sf$1@nnrp1.deja.com
One of the nasty terms i like in the Jargon file is "wannabee"
"A woul-be hacker"
Someone merely repeating what others say is at best a wannabee. Or perhaps
a computer program, with poor chances of passing the Turing test.
Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-29 0:00 Britannica on Ada David Botton
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Frode Tenneboe
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-02 0:00 ` jehamby
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-03-06 0:00 ` jehamby
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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