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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hack value</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hack-up.html" title="hack up"/><link rel="next" href="hacked-off.html" title="hacked off"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hack value</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-up.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-off.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hack-value"/><dt xmlns="" id="hack-value"><b>hack value</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort
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toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal
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is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing
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Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See
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<a href="../D/display-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">display hack</i></a> for one method of computing hack value,
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but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong
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once said when asked to explain jazz: “<span class="quote">Man, if you gotta ask you'll
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never know.</span>” (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of
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rhythm: “<span class="quote">Lady, if you got to ask, you ain't got it.</span>”)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-up.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-off.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack up </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacked off</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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