garey@tekid.UUCP (Garey Fouts) (09/23/83)
Since when did the term 'hacker' ever have a good meaning? It has (in the computer industry) always been a term for a sloppy programmer or a computer nerd still in school. Professional software folk take their work seriously. Would you want to live on the 50th floor of a building designed by someone who considered her/himself an architecture hacker? Perhaps when the likes of 'hackers' take themselves seriously, the media will take them seriously. Garey Fouts