I'm not discussing the meaning of the word, neccesarily, but the perception of the concept that the particular definition represents.

Elaboration: In one circle, programming of a certain type (i.e. cleverness) is good, on these other fronts, cleverness is discouraged, and looking at the exact same line of code, one might here "Nice hack!" and "Urgh! I hate to see that kind of hack there". It's hackscrimination :)

Merlyn's definitely right regarding non-tech circles though. It's the trend in tech-circles that seems to be weird. Programmers that don't like cleverness of any kind, whether you call it "hacking" or not. And they have management's ear. Gotta shake that up.

Ok, seeing I have confused everyone, I'll leave it at that.

In reply to Re: Re: Fighting the denigration of hacking by flyingmoose
in thread Fighting the denigration of hacking by flyingmoose

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