资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Hacking X for Y
     
        [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 file}s).
     
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