Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt 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 Article-I.D.: dciem.250 Posted: Mon Jul 18 16:00:06 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Jul-83 16:24:16 EDT References: nsc.331 Lines: 4 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.