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
hack
hack around
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hack chronometer
hack iron
hack it
hack knife
hack mode
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hack out
hack saw blade
hack sawing machine
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hack-hammer
hack-stand
bend hack
deep hack mode
display hack
hand hack
neat hack
power hack-saw
real hack
road hack
set hack
a grub-street hack
clone-and-hack coding