An array of terms... : ASM x86 ASM 370

COMPUTER TERMS:
I find that ther are many terms which have their origin in the day,
that of programming way back.
We can see that MIT in the 60's-70's used the term
'hacker' to mean programming.
"one who works like a hack at writing and experimenting with software,
one who enjoys computer programming for its own sake," 1976,
reportedly defined by MIT.
The etymological root they seem to derive the word from
is hack (1700) "a person hired to do routine work",
short for hackney "an ordinary horse."
"one who writes anything for hire" hackneyed "trite" (1749);
hack writer (1826), in the word
"carriage for hire" (1704) lead to the modern word "taxicab."
For decades this was the popular term for programmer.
These MIT students are responsible for even the Free Software
Movement.
Amongst programmers sometimes 'hacker' is used as a complement,
to very good programming.
It is still stubbornly used by some programmers, in its original good,
sense "programmer", especially by the open source community.
It is very weird, that every strange name made up by programmers,
used as a term has been attacked, when most of the terms
derive from latin or english words which actually mean,
something good - hack (1700) a person hired to do routine work
short for hackney "a horse", 1826-hackwriter
a person hired to write.
Reportedly MIT defined hacker as meaning "Programmer", can any tell me
how it can be contradicted that a programmer is a person hired to do
routine work?
Hey, if we let this happen to these terms, we might as well throw away
all are
dictionaries, for quite a lot english words derive there meaning this
way....
The slang version of this word first appeared in the 1980's to mean
something
bad.

MY QUESTION IS:
Do any of you still use this term for 'programmer'?
If you do how do you protect yourself from misintrepretation?

If you read the book "the hackers", I'm the un identified UK hacker
who wrote the card deck loaders that played "music" on the IBM 1403
print-chain.

It could played any tune(s) you cared to code as 5 characters/note and
16/card:-

note,(blank/b/#), octave,T,S/blank

notes A..G
blank=normal, b=flat, #=sharp,
octave 1 to 8
T=Time length, in tenth seconds
S=staccato (last 1/10 sec silent)

I liked "Rhapsody in blue"; that high first note rising through an
octave threatened an explosion, before descending to the theme.

A more compact 4-character code hack can use 12 note codes where
lowercas is "sharp".
AaBCcDdEFfGgAa.... since only one key is available and sharp of one is
the flat of the next.

The hammers fire when the character slug on the print chain passes the
column hammer, so if you compose a line of characters that will all
cause firing and identical intervals, you get a note and line
completion, like a boy dragging a stick along metal railings.
Since the line advances on completion, you also control the note
interval (and intensity) by more or less characters on theline.

Funny how we early 1961 hackers all liked railway train clubs and
primitive electronics a la Gates/Jobs/Wojiak, but on both sides of the
Atlantic.

wolf3y3 wrote:

> Do any of you still use this term for 'programmer'?

We were proud of the name, meaning.
Programming in an optimum way of an unusual target function.

If you read the book "the hackers", I'm the un identified UK hacker
who wrote the card deck loaders that played "music" on the IBM 1403
print-chain.

It could played any tune(s) you cared to code as 5 characters/note and
16/card:-

note,(blank/b/#), octave,T,S/blank

notes A..G
blank=normal, b=flat, #=sharp,
octave 1 to 8
T=Time length, in tenth seconds
S=staccato (last 1/10 sec silent)

I liked "Rhapsody in blue"; that high first note rising through an
octave threatened an explosion, before descending to the theme.

A more compact 4-character code hack can use 12 note codes where
lowercas is "sharp".
AaBCcDdEFfGgAa.... since only one key is available and sharp of one is
the flat of the next.

The hammers fire when the character slug on the print chain passes the
column hammer, so if you compose a line of characters that will all
cause firing and identical intervals, you get a note and line
completion, like a boy dragging a stick along metal railings.
Since the line advances on completion, you also control the note
interval (and intensity) by more or less characters on theline.

Funny how we early 1950-60 hackers all liked railway train clubs and
primitive electronics a la Gates/Jobs/Wojiak, but on both sides of the
Atlantic. The Atari. Don Lancaster's TV boxes, Pong. etc.
We also sailed battleships along the lights of the massive IBM
computer consoles!