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whack - According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious.


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Whack, whack, whack, come his blows, breaking down the gipsy's guard, and threatening to reach his head every moment.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
I reckon our pow- wows won't do us or anyone much harm, so let's have another whack at the whence, why and whither this evening, doctor.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
"It got half of it," he announced; "but I got a whack at it jes' the same.
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