Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] What do you mean by saing "hack"?

[Bastien]

Hi Paul,

I would define a "hack" as an ingenious solution.  Applied to software,
this is an "ingenious piece of code".  This ingenious piece of code can
be a nice /workaround/ to fix a problem, or just some interesting piece
of code.

But in most cases, and especially in the free software communities, "to
hack" has the broader meaning of "to code", with no implication of what
the code looks like.

Apparently, the russian translation "to saw" goes in the opposite
direction in suggesting something /methodical/, which is clearly not
what "a hack" (or a workaround) is.

Hope this helps,

-- 
 Bastien