OT: "kluge"/"kludge"
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Saturday, May 10, 2003, 0:25 |
Nokta Kanto scripsit:
> There's a few nice English terms mostly used in hackerspeak... mung is one
> of them... also grok and kludge (kludge comes from something German).
It's a mixture of a Scottish word for "loo" and the name of a Dutch-American
engineering firm. See
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/kludge.html
and http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/kluge.html
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