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"Others use it to describe a particularly elegant hack"
I have heard kluge used as just the opposite, a "klugy" solution is sloppy and awkward.
Programming has many wonderful words and phrases in its jargon. I have always gotten a kick out of "rain dance," meaning a seemingly pointless manuever that has fixative properties to some problem, such as turning off the lamp and unplugging the telephone to make the hard drive become unfrozen.
My mother became a computer progammer when I was about nine years old. I remember back then when a computer crashed or locked up they used the term "bomb," as in "the program just bombed." I remember being delighted with the figurative language, since bomb suggested a catastrophic failure.
Anybody else know any good programming gems?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted fubar from below TheFallibleFiend 05/31/02 12:49 PM Re: Kluge type fixes Bryan Hayward 06/03/02 04:56 PM Re: Kluge type fixes Alex Williams 06/03/02 10:18 PM Re: Kluge type fixes Angel 06/03/02 11:53 PM Re: Kluge type fixes TheFallibleFiend 06/04/02 12:46 PM Re: Hi Bryan wow 06/04/02 04:56 PM
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