Re: Hackers and Painters

[ken_i_m () fatair net]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 04:30:29PM -0300, Tiago Assumpcao (module () whatever org ar) wrote:
> "The fact that hackers learn to hack by doing it is another sign of how 
> different hacking is from the sciences. Scientists don't learn science 
> by doing it, but by doing labs and problem sets. Scientists start out 
> doing work that's perfect, in the sense that they're just trying to 
> reproduce work someone else has already done for them. Eventually, they 
> get to the point where they can do original work. Whereas hackers, from 
> the start, are doing original work; it's just very bad. So hackers start 
> original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original."

Most fields of study pursued by "scientists" are mature.  The pioneers
of a field tend to resemble computer hackers.

I think "computer science" is at the stage that the study of electricity
was at in the days of Benjamin Franklin.
-- 
Ken Dyke
"Bits at the speed of light"
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