A question at the periphery of the list's main purpose

Tim Rowledge rowledge at interval.com
Mon Aug 16 04:40:55 UTC 1999


On Sun 15 Aug, West, David M. wrote:
> Question:
> 
>      Are there Smalltalk "hackers?"
I suppose you could call those of us that do VM & system level work hackers
in the sense you described. Folks using the higher levels of the system
(apps, for example) tend to have more interest in solving the problem
rather than finding new problems to attack, which I posit is not quite what
you have in mind.

I would also claim that lots of us on this list aspire to Bodhisatva
status; look at how much effort is often expended to explain something to
a seeker-of-enlightenment.

There is a sort of food chain aspect to it all --  the solid state physics
hackers make stuff for the hardware hackers who build machines for us VM &
system hackers so that framework & apps hackers can produce something
for the domain hackers to use in order for the money hackers to rip us all
off :-) 'cept of course that today, for a while, the hardware and software
hackers have been able to chew off a bigger chunk on the way past than is
traditional.

tim

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