On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 22 Jan 2010 9:38:53 am Charles Haynes wrote: >> Wikipedia is the wrong place to look up the original jargonish meaning >> of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better. >> http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#The%20Meaning%20of%20Hack > > The definition in this source written in 2000 involves a degree of self praise > as in "You have got to admire us hackers". The ego comes with the word > apparently.
No, the ego comes with the author. That is the main complaint about ESR's version, but I don't think you have a login on ai.mit.edu. -- Charles
