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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re:  "Kludge or Kluge?"
Message-ID: <250@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 16:00:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 18 16:00:06 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Jul-83 16:24:16 EDT
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As I heard it, "kluge" comes from the German for "clever". A Kluge,
then, is originally a clever way of solving a problem. But what programmers
used to call clever, we now prefer to call cute (or worse), so a
kluge is a not particularly smart way to be clever.