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Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? by ashleyn on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:45AM (#16672379)
If I had to guess, it was a hamfisted way of doing JS-style objects in C++. They could just slap properties onto objects, etc, and the build process will determine what each class needs. Clever, but terrible.
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Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? by mikelevins on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:01PM (#16673094)
For what it's worth, it was before JS existed.
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