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From: mwilber@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: kludge
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Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 22:35:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 15 22:35:17 1987
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Reply-To: mwilber@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Mike Wilber)
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ok, i can't stand it any more...back in the 60's a fellow named ascher opler (i
think that was his name) defined a kludge as an ill-chosen assortment of parts
making up a distressing whole...for more details (given access, of course, to a
suitable archive), you might wish to look up a series of articles datamation
ran on the kludge komputer korporation some time from 10/64 to 5/66 (there
were, as i recall, at least three, maybe six, articles in the series)...some
say it's from the old high german word kloege, whose meaning i'll spare you...
cheers -- mike