Paul Bennett said:
>
> Interestingly, you've nailed the much more verbose description by Eric S
> Raymond of what makes a truly great computer programmer/hacker. Also
> listed among the traits are a tendency to be more liberal in sexual
> attitudes,
Yes.
> a disregard for rules that get in the way of doing fun work,
Yes.
> a love of spicy food,
Yes. Designing, preparing and eating.
> an interest in the martial arts,
Yes.
> an appreciation of word-play,
Word-play? Me?
> and a feeling that the line between work and play can be blurry.
You mean this list isn't work for everybody like it is for me?
> I wonder how many of ESR's "hacker" traits tend to bleed over into
> conlangers?
I was a linguist who needed a paying job so he realized his true hacker
nature and made a lot of money and then went back to linguistics and is
now a hacker linguist, hacking science and software with language and
hacking language with science and software. *shrug*
-- Mark