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Subject: Re: [Dailydave] Hackers and Painters
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:50:52PM -0700, Rodney Thayer (rodney () canola-jones com) wrote:
> At 06:40 PM 9/21/2004 -0400, Sinan Eren wrote:
>
> > i would consider python as an "artwork" and Guido as the "maker".
>
> I think 'art' and 'maker' are not appropriate together.  a maker
> builds brick walls.  a creator creates art.

A rather limited view of both creating archetecture and building works
of art.

> and if they use 'hacker' not as a security thing I think
> that's stupid.  it was cute in the 70's when people around MIT
> used 'hacker' and 'hack' and there were seven different spellings
> of 'nerd' but that's wrong now.

My unabridged Webster's give this definition:

Hacker Hack"er, n.
   One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting
   instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching
   pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

Ever since John Markoff many people equate "hacker" with criminal.

Oh, and the term "hacker" in the sense of computer hacker goes back at
least as far as the early 60s.
-- 
Ken Dyke
"Bits at the speed of light"
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