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I'm torn, because while ESR did add a lot of emphasis on Unix/C culture (which is very important in hacker history), the last five or ten years he's really take

by jcd748 14y ago

I'm torn, because while ESR did add a lot of emphasis on Unix/C culture (which is very important in hacker history), the last five or ten years he's really taken it off the rails, adding terms from war blogging and other sources that really have nothing to do with hacking at all.

WalterGR 14y ago
...he's really taken it off the rails, adding terms from war blogging and other sources that really have nothing to do with hacking at all. And terms of his own devising that haven't caught on. That seems like the cardinal sin of a lexicographer.