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whack /v./ According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of
NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), 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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