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