highly qualified IT professional, a man who understands the depths of the computer systems. Originally called hackers programmers for a bug in the software in any fast and not always elegant (in the context of the program used in programming style and its overall structure, interface design), or in a professional way, the word hack has come from the lexicon of the hippies, in the Russian language is identical to the slang word "cut one's way." Hackers often identify with cracker - crackers (born cracker, on to crack - split, crush), but this use of the word "hacker" is incorrect.
Hackers called, for example, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, Donald Knuth, Bjarne Stroustrup, Eric Raymond [citation needed 571 days], Andrew Tanenbaum and other creators of the open systems world-class. In Russia, the prime example is the hacker Chris Kasperski.
Sometimes the term is used to refer to specialists in general - in the context that they have a very detailed knowledge of any issues or have enough non-standard and constructive thinking. Since the appearance of the word in the form of computer term (1960), he has appeared new and often different values.