:whack: v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a
program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See {whacker}.)
It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if
the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at
{glark}ing things from context. As a trivial example, it is
relatively easy to change all `stderr' writes to `stdout'
writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise
mysterious.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See {whacker}.)
It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if
the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at
{glark}ing things from context. As a trivial example, it is
relatively easy to change all `stderr' writes to `stdout'
writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise
mysterious.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- whack v.
According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of
NeWS,
GOSMACS and Java), to "...modify a program with no... - I didn't change anything!: interj. An aggrieved cry often heard as
bugs manifest during a regression test.
The {canonical} reply to this assertion is "Then... - prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from... - English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in
any language,
as opposed to the linkable or executable binary ... - SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated... - canonical adj.
[very common; historically, `according
to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of
something.
This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in... - Obfuscated C Contest n.
(in full, the `International
Obfuscated C Code Contest',
or IOCCC) An annual contest run since 1984 over... - slim: n. A small, derivative change (e.g., to code).
The AI Hackers... - whacker: [University of Maryland: from {hacker}] n.
1. A person, similar to a {hacker}, who enjoys exploring...
From the same category:
- A gentleman never crumbles his bread or rolls in
his soup... - I think you should defend to the death their right to march,
and then go down and meet them with baseball bats... - Limbaugh:
What happens when you feed a hog after midnight... - The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan... - Gifts for Children --
This is easy. You never have to figure out what to get for children,
because they will tell you exactly what they want....
