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Hack On Vt. [very Common] To Hack; Implies That The Subject Is Some Pre-existing Hunk Of Code That One Is Evolving, As Opposed To Something One Might Hack Up.
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hack on vt.
[very common] To hack; implies that the
subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as
opposed to something one might hack up.
Related:
hack on: vt. To {hack}; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might {hack up}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hack up vt. To hack, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
Contrast this with hack on. To `hack up on' implies a quick-and-dirty modification to an existing system....
hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
monkey up vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution....
monkey up: vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
Connotes an extremely {crufty} and consciously temporary solution....
cruft together: vt. (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
Like vt. {kluge up}, but more pejorative. "There isn't any program now to reverse all the lines of a file, but I can probably cruft one together in about 10 minutes....
cruft together vt. (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
Like vt. kluge up, but more pejorative. "There isn't any program now to reverse all the lines of a file, but I can probably cruft one together in about 10 minutes....
kluge up vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
his is milder than cruft together and has some of the connotations of hack up (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to hack on is never used)....
kluge up: vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
his is milder than {cruft together} and has some of the connotations of {hack up} (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to {hack on} is never used)....