How does it look robust? Because someone wrote a man page and there's lots of boilerplate in it?
Proper design reduces complexity. The above adds a lot of complexity, and thus it's a hack. Not the appearance.
Proper design reduces complexity. The above adds a lot of complexity, and thus it's a hack. Not the appearance.
Otherwise with your standard of hack anything beyond hello world and baby's first input are hacks because everything else requires boilerplate.