I'm sure most(99%) of you out there are aware of the long and varied history of the word hacker. The problem of course that it has now become synonymous with cracker, and anyone who wishes to call himself a 'hacker' would have to explain to more or less everyone what he meant by that. My proposal here is to come up with a word that can be used to describe more or less the same thing as hacker used to/does. Thus i invoke two virtues of perl, namely: laziness: I don't want to explain in what sense i use 'hacker', and hubris: i can invent a better 'hacker' :).

Possibly if we come up with several decent suggestions, one of the gods could create a poll on those words..

(note: even if we don't revolutionize the usage of hacker, or vocabulary of real hackers or what not, coming up with amusing names is always fun. So have at it!)

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