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From: joec@u1100a.UUCP (Joe Carfagno)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Re: hackers, etc.
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 21:35:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 21:35:02 1985
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[This lines for you...]
 
Someone asked for the difference between a "hacker" and a
"real programmer" (the UNIX type I assume)...
 
I am a supervisor of a group of UNIX system software specialists.
Here's my perspective...
 
If you work in such a group, and like building UNIX tools and
software of some non-trival type, you are called a "hacker".
If you work in some other type of group (application, support, etc.),
and do the same, you are called a "real UNIX programmer".
It's usually the latter types that make the statements about the former.
 
Another twisted view, but then, opinions are like belly-buttons
(substitute your favorite orifice here), everybody's got one...