Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site u1100a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!u1100a!joec From: joec@u1100a.UUCP (Joe Carfagno) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: Re: hackers, etc. Message-ID: <769@u1100a.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 21:35:02 EST Article-I.D.: u1100a.769 Posted: Tue Jan 8 21:35:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 06:29:52 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 16 [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...