joec@u1100a.UUCP (Joe Carfagno) (01/09/85)
[This lines for you...] Someone asked for the difference between a "hacker" and a "real programmer" (the UNIX type I assume)... I am a supervisor of a group of UNIX system software specialists. Here's my perspective... If you work in such a group, and like building UNIX tools and software of some non-trival type, you are called a "hacker". If you work in some other type of group (application, support, etc.), and do the same, you are called a "real UNIX programmer". It's usually the latter types that make the statements about the former. Another twisted view, but then, opinions are like belly-buttons (substitute your favorite orifice here), everybody's got one...