Found 2 hits - Term: hacking x for y, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
hacking x for y n. its ritual phrasing of part of the information
which its made publicly available about each user. this information the
inquir record was a sort of form in which the user could fill out
various fields. on display, two of these fields were always combined
into a project description of the form "hacking x for y" e.g.,
`"hacking perceptrons for minsky"'. this form of description became
traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more
general facilities for self-advertisement such as unix plan files.
see also:
plan file
- [2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
hacking x for y
its ritual phrasing of part of the information which its
made publicly available about each user. this information
the inquir record was a sort of form in which the user could
fill out various fields. on display, two of these fields were
always combined into a project description of the form
"hacking x for y" e.g. ""hacking perceptrons for minsky"".
this form of description became traditional and has since been
carried over to other systems with more general facilities for
self-advertisement such as unix plan files.
jargon file
see also:
plan file jargon file
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