From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Is "Hacker" Good?
Article-I.D.: floyd.249
Posted: Mon Jun  7 10:12:10 1982
Received: Tue Jun  8 00:59:50 1982
References: eagle.332

Hackers program with axes!
Gimme a break, huh?

Look, pal, I've seen incompetence in my day, and it has nothing to do
hackers.  Just because you looked it up in your Funkin' Wagnalls and it
said that to hack means to bludgeon, it doesn't mean that computer
hackers are to be perceived as bludgeon wielders.

The hackers I have known tend to love their work and do it well.  We
have highly refined senses of aesthetics and we pay more than our share
of taxes to Uncle Sam.  What the hell do you from us?  Doth not a hacker
bleed?

Next time you need some work done, go find a cretin with a HIPO
diagramming template in his plastic pocket protector.  Give me a guy
with a flannel shirt and hiking boots any day of the week (which is
when you'll find him working).

If you want to make disparaging remarks about hackers, eagle!cw, you're
doing it in the wrong space.
	I hack and I'm proud.
	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491