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What is a "hack"?

Subject: What is a "hack"?
From: Geraldine.A.Wright.1@gsfc.nasa.gov (Geraldine Wright)
Date: 1999/02/16
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA

I don't mean to sound stupid, but...

At one time I thought a hack was an attempt to illegally access a computer 
network which you were not authorized to be on. Now I see it used to 
describe software, but I'm not quite sure what is wrong with the software 
that it's used to describe.
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Geraldine Wright (the Applesoft-aholic)
Geraldine.A.Wright.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
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"Big, fat hairy deal!"  -Garfield

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