No, in this case that use is not even recorded -- perhaps my point was not clearly made. In addition, your tone was *not* appreciated.

"A tennis hack" as mentioned above has the word "hack" modifing the programmer. In the phrase "a programmer hack" does not modify the programmer, the "hack" is a noun and "programmer" modifies "hack".

Anyhow, in the software case "hack" has three meanings, "bad coding example", "good coding example", and "to break into a system".

I'm stipulating that "bad coding example" did not come from the tennis origins, nor the software origins, but rather from the perception that what we consider to be "a good hack" is despised by other folks, who do not appreciate cleverness and would prefer martialled order.

In essense, what I regard as a "good hack" other folks regard as "hacked up code", and these phrases are from the same origin, that of "hacking". I'm saying we have software folks that despise "hacking" in the old school (pre-cracker) sense. They don't like cleverness. They don't like low level code and tweaks. They don't like optomizations. Essentially, they refer to the same denotation of hacking (3) with an opposition connotation.

Cleverness is good. Boringness is bad. Carry on.

In reply to Re: Re: Fighting the denigration of hacking by flyingmoose
in thread Fighting the denigration of hacking by flyingmoose

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