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I humbly disagree. He built something. He now hacks. Perhaps your definition and mine do not match...but there's nothing you can say about your pet language or your specific feature list for what makes a hacker. I only have one requirement: Does he write real, working, useful code?

Looks to me like he's a hacker.

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I was under the impression that a hacker is in the top 2% of all programmers.

What is the currently accepted definition for hacker around here?

I was under the impression that a hacker is in the top 2% of all programmers.

Quite right. And only those who are better can judge who the top 2% are. So if we can just figure out who the top 1% of hackers are, we'll get this figured out once and for all, eh?

http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

i think its very un-hackeresque to obsess over labels - since they do nothing, no offense.

wow joe, thanks! you really are swell.

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