Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When you say 'hacking', you mean.... ? > > Presumably he meant the real meaning of the word, not what the press > made up and ran with.
To be fair, the press already had its own pejorative meaning of “hack” before the engineering and computing term, so the association was probably inevitable. -- \ “I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure | `\ enough, I couldn't see any forests.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
