"It's going to be a little bit different in a couple of years, waking up in the morning and sitting in a freshman English class rather than going to my computer workstation and hacking code all day, " Brockman said.

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From the outside, hacking computer code has largely been viewed as a technical discipline, not as a theologically rich vision of how to live.

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Other Fortify products examine patterns of coding behavior to spot mistakes and enable developers to try hacking their own code when it is in a final testing phase.

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An abundance of talent all working to create a hit--in the software business, you have groups of programmers hacking together hundreds of thousands of lines of code to hit the jackpot.

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