>>> On 9/29/2015 at 03:09 PM, Jon Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > While the low-cost software community would like you to think ' "hacking" > means programming for the joy of it.' in fact its meaning in English, > according to the OED, is quite the opposite and that which is generally > accepted by the public: > > hack, v.3 > > [f. hack n.3] > > 1.1 trans. To make a hack of, to put to indiscriminate or promiscuous use; > to make common, vulgar, or stale, by such treatment; to hackney. Also to hack > about, hack to death.
Yeah, that pretty much describes the state of software in the world today, totally. Get real. Depending on the OED for a definition of something in a niche like this is pretty ridiculous. Referring to the community that provides much of the infrastructure that you and most of the businesses you deal with every day depend on as "the low-cost software" world is rather pejorative as well. Fairly typical for IBM-Main, but still offensive. Just because lazy writers and thinkers have popularized hacking as something evil doesn't make it so. I guess they figured someone would be offended by the correct terminology of cracking and crackers. Too bad for them, but it does help us that know better to identify which writers to either ignore or seriously question whatever they have to day. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
