While the low-cost software community would like you to think ' "hacking" means programming for the joy of it.' in fact its meaning in English, according to the OED, is quite the opposite and that which is generally accepted by the public:
hack, v.3 [f. hack n.3] 1.1 trans. To make a hack of, to put to indiscriminate or promiscuous use; to make common, vulgar, or stale, by such treatment; to hackney. Also to hack about, hack to death. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
