Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Definitions of 'Hacker' Message-ID: <6236@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:48:13 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6236 Posted: Wed Dec 12 06:48:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:28:00 EST References: <2612@dartvax.UUCP> <121@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <429@ut-sally.UUCP> Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 6 Interesting that all the definitions of hacker in the sense of programmer were complimentary: they must have been written by people who considered themselves hackers! In England (where I come from) I always heard the word used as an insult, meaning someone who programs without thinking first. Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.