I apologize when I insulted people here. Nevertheless, I would prefer a more neutral, term. The word 'hacker' might scare people and it doesn't sound very 'inviting' to me.
Specification and clear documentation is much more important than implementation!
I personally hate maintaining software, keep adding features forever, updating, debugging, etc. I love 'design'.
Well, sorry for bothering you all. Thanks for correcting me and giving me stuff to read about 'hacking', Erik.
Don't know in which way I can contribute to Wikipedia-software-development for I almost don't know anything about databases and database-locking (which seems to give rise to performance-problems).
Sorry for crying out nonsense here; thank you for always responding; but most of all thanks for making Wikipedia at all possible, in that regard you're really doing a great job!
Pieter Suurmond
Erik Moeller wrote:
They should be given a proper place (don't remove!). They should however be separated from 'development'.
Software-development and maintainance is a very serious business, please don't call it 'hacking' any longer because Wikipedia is reaching adulthood. :-) (Grown-up software-developers don't call themselves 'hackers': It's all about thinking and mathematics!)
Insulting nonsense. There are plenty of "grown-up" software developers who call themselves hackers. Ask the people at
http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackersor the folks working on the Linux kernel:
http://www.kernelhacking.org/for example. I wouldn't say that these people are not capable of thinking or do not understand mathematics.
Wikipedia is an open source project, and in the open source community, the term "hacker" has a much different tradition from other development groups. It is a perfectly appropriate term for the development process, unless you see open source itself as "unprofessional" and "not for grown- ups" (in which case you should don your asbestos suit..)
Regards,
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