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hack value
(foldoc) | hack value
Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort
toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the
accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had
features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were
installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one
method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be
explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said
when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll
never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation
of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
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hack value
(jargon) | hack value
n.
Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a
seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a
hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman
numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack
for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be
explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to
explain jazz: “Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.” (Feminists please
note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: “Lady, if you got to ask, you
ain't got it.”)
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