3. Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.

The general theory behind this term is that there are two classes of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers) and lusers. The users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. (The few users who do are known as real winners.) The term is a relative one: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context. document.write('') Wikipedia: UserTopHome > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia For information on Wikipedia user accounts, see Wikipedia:Username policy. For Wikipedia users, see Wikipedia:Wikipedians.Look up user in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.User may refer to:

Dansk (Danish)n. - bruger, konsument idioms:right of user brugsret, brugsrettighed

Nederlands (Dutch)gebruiker, verbruiker, drugsverslaafde

Français (French)n. - usager, utilisateur, (US) homme/femme intéressé/-e idioms:right of user droit de l'utilisateur/l'usager

Deutsch (German)n. - Benutzer, Verbraucher idioms:right of user Verbraucherrecht

Ελληνική (Greek)n. - χρήστης idioms:right of user (νομ.) χρησικτησία

Italiano (Italian)consumatore, utente idioms:right of user diritto di uso

Português (Portuguese)n. - usuário (m) idioms:right of user direito de usuário

Русский (Russian)пользователь, потребитель, наркоман, право давности idioms:right of user право пользования