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Subject: Re: Hacker.  A definition. - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 15:08:49 EST
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iuvax!apratt    Jan 25 12:44:00 1984

I'll post to that.  Hacking is when you shave 3 milliseconds off a loop which
normally only executes once.  It's when you agonize for an hour over the
relative value of trimming the core requirement or speeding up the algorithm.
Hackers don't mess with security (etc.) unless they're writing the program or
else they are also worms (ferrets? snakes?).  Me, I enjoy an all-night session
which results in no change in visual performance of a program, but which makes
the code run much cleaner.  That's what it's all about!

(This is only half joking; I really DO love hacking!)

		Ever wake up feeling like a null pointer?
							-- Allan Pratt
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