Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sask.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!alberta!sask!konkin From: konkin@sask.UUCP (Doug Konkin ) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Where have all the hackers gone? Message-ID: <145@sask.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 18:55:36 EST Article-I.D.: sask.145 Posted: Fri Dec 14 18:55:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:56:30 EST References: <3138@utah-cs.UUCP> Organization: U of Saskatchewan, Canada Lines: 19 [] I don't want to stir up the ashes, but bemoaning the departure of hackers from the Computer Science departments of the continent, and their subsequent replacement with all manner of money-grubbing clones in trendy clothes (likely Commerce Cmpt majors) is a load. There are still lots of hackers around, even if access to the guts of department computers is becoming more restricted. I think that if the author of the posting checked carefully, he would find that the people that he calls hackers are disappearing not so much because they are being bested by the aforementioned mercenaries, but rather because they can't hack the theory necessary to be a computer scientist. Technical schools turn out programmers -- we university types are supposedly capable of much more. Doug Konkin Dept of Computational Science U of Saskatchewan ihnp4!sask!konkin