Teaching Python

Tue Apr 19 20:06:27 EDT 2011

Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM, geremy condra <debatem1 at 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.
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