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		visakhcr on May 15, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Learning to hack... Good knowledge of OS is a must..then some C, Perl will some handy...If you know unix shell programming, u can become a master in hacking... and also, if you are a DB guy like me, then even with ordinary SQL, u can hack a lot of stuff...

yters on May 16, 2008 [–]

[comment that looks archaic once parent is modded up]

Which is to say a hacker also needs a taste for recursion.

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