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[Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really enjoyed the last several posts where i had no idea what was being 
talked about but it's good to have people with that level of relevant detailed 
knowledge contributing to a thread.

When we see the term "hacker" a lot of people still think of the way the 
mainstream press and news reports mis-use the term.  It is better to realise 
that inside the linux community it more usually means something like "clever 
coder/programmer".  Mostly when programmers write code they are just follow 
standard methods and settle into habits, however most programmers have odd 
moments when they really grok and have an almost Zen-like "oneness with the 
code" producing something so beautifully simple and elegant that other code 
looks like a kludge in comparison, even if it was fairly well produced.  
Sometimes a hack might be producing a kludge where it wasn't thought possible to 
get any result at all.  One thing about linux is that elegant code is often 
easily carried through into subsequent releases and kludges gradually get 
replaced with more elegant code.  With Windows programming it is usually 
difficult to get any overview of any particular chunk of coding so it often 
remains a kludge.  In linux elegant code often results in admiration and respect 
for the coder.  The main thing about "hack" is about producing something very 
fast or clever or elegant or outstanding in some other way.  


Regards from
Tom :)

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