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From: konkin@sask.UUCP (Doug Konkin )
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Where have all the hackers gone?
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 18:55:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 18:55:36 1984
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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
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