Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!utah-cs!coller From: coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. Coller) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Programming vs. marks vs. initiative vs. hackers... Message-ID: <3147@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 13:34:56 EST Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3147 Posted: Thu Dec 13 13:34:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 01:48:59 EST References: <331@lll-crg.ARPA> Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 19 [] Charles Neveau asks for a definition of a hacker. I've included two. Hacker (definition used by the media) - A crook who gets his jollies from stealing credit card numbers out of TRW, etc. This person should be locked up. Hacker (my definition) - A person who can sit down in front of a terminal and "hack" code. This person often produces code that only that person can understand. This person also likes to work nites and prefers computers to people (:-). Am I a hacker? No. Would I hire a hacker? Probably not. Lee Coller coller@utah-cs.ARPA {seismo, decvax, hplabs}!utah-cs!coller