May 15, 2003

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).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:44 AM

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