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| May 4, 2011 at 4:34 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by That Realtor Programmer Guy | ||
| May 3, 2011 at 16:51 | comment | added | ozz | @FWFD - that's just disagreeing over whether something IS a hack. If someone "says" some code is a hack you'd know what they meant. | |
| May 3, 2011 at 15:40 | history | edited | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 275 characters in body |
| May 3, 2011 at 15:25 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | @james: In my experience, two programmers can look at some code and one will call it a hack, the other will not. There's no realy way to quantify a piece of code as a hack. Everyone has their own idea of what a hack is, and often they are similar but not always the same. Written as someone who has had his code called "hackish" by others, and disagreed. And I've called other people's code "hackish" and they disagreed. True, those are probably boundary cases, but the boundaries can be fuzzy at times... | |
| May 3, 2011 at 15:11 | comment | added | ozz | I'm not sure what you mean by "not very precise" - I'd say most programmers would know exactly what is meant by saying some code written is a hack. But the rest of the answer is spot on, it works, but for some reason (architecture, performances etc) it is not an optimal solution. | |
| May 3, 2011 at 15:03 | history | edited | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | CC BY-SA 3.0 | add URL |
| May 3, 2011 at 14:56 | history | answered | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |