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/***** ea:net.flame / uokvax!emjej /  8:28 am  Jun 14, 1984 */
With some trepidation, I suggest the Anglicism "boffin" as an alternative
to "hacker," in case the media win out.
						James Jones
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But then what will I call our engineers? If 'the wiz' is a boffin, the
engineers can't be boffins too, can they?