OpenEuphoria

Re: Definition of 'hacker'

• Posted by simulat <simulat at INTERGATE.BC.CA> Mar 08, 2000
• 460 views

I always thought that the idea of hacker came from the idea of making
furniture with a machete. No matter how good a job you do - it always looks
kind of "hacked".

So, I always thought a hacker was an undisciplined programmer like me who
just hacked together whatever worked at the moment. You end up with software
that kind of works, and is sufficient for lots of purposes, but can only be
described as "hacked".

I'm sure lots of Euphoria programmers end up with this - programs with bits
from there attached to libs from here and the whole thing is kind of
"hacked".

And I'd guess that "hacked" is what drives "OOP" crazy.

Bye the way - check out my website - all the pictures were created with
Euphoria.

Bye
Martin Hunt

simulat at intergate.bc.ca