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So then the only thing that I needed before I could start work was a name. Now, to be a hacker means to enjoy playful cleverness -- in programming, and in other areas of life, any area of life [where] you could be playfully clever. And there was a hacker tradition that when you were writing a program that was similar to some existing program, you could give your new program a name that's a recursive acronym, saying it is not the other program.