Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!jnw From: jnw@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.books Subject: kludge and the Devil's DP Dictionary Message-ID: <817@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Jul-83 14:06:41 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.817 Posted: Sat Jul 16 14:06:41 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 21:27:53 EDT Lines: 26 Reprinted without permission from "The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle, published by McGraw Hill: kludge n. & v.trans., also called kluge [Yiddish klug "smart."] 1 n. The programmers' vaseline. 2 n. A step in STEPWISE REFINEMENT. 3 n. [From JARGON FILE] Something that works for the wrong reasons. 4 v.trans. To evade the main issue by applying a kludge (to a problem). See also BUG; ONE-LINE PATCH; PTF. and of course one-line patch n. [From D. C. Moulton, Ilford, Essex, England.] A KLUDGE so minimal that no testing is necessary. Corrected by a further one-line patch. See RECURSION. This is a slightly uneven but often hilarious book. I recommend it highly to people in the business who need a source for witty comments in speeches, etc. joe wilson Univ. of Virginia uucp: ...decvax!duke!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!jnw CSnet: jnw@uvacs Arpa: jnw.uvacs@udel-relay