Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akgub!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Programming vs. marks vs. initiative vs. hackers... Message-ID: <177@usl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 16:55:45 EST Article-I.D.: usl.177 Posted: Wed Dec 12 16:55:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 07:10:42 EST References: <676@clyde.UUCP>, <224@looking.UUCP> Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 14 In the article referenced above (too lazy to copy it) the author mentions 6-7 people that got the MegaBucks.. What he did not mention was that these (bright) people were a very small percentage of the total hackerie. The average all-nighter would end up as a subordinate doing nothing but install gimmics to existing programs to make them more expensive (see most "integrated" packages...). The morale: which is better, Moviechannel or PL/1 (no unix here...) Spiros Triantafyllopoulos Computer Science Department University of Southwestern Louisiana {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma