[comp.sys.apple2] hacking

gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (10/09/90)

In article <1990Oct8.181959.27648@ee.rochester.edu> seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) writes:
>... The professionals continued to see the hackers as
>a threat because, quite frankly, they knew what they were doing and
>understood the system on an almost intuitive level.

Competent professionals understood what was wrong with hacking in the
first solution to a problem that happened to come to mind.  The great
cost of software is frequently due to problems introduced by a hacking
mentality.