Excellent post.  I'm saving the quote.  (Yes, all our children
did sleep in our bed for the first three or four years.)

> I use the word "kludge" on purpose, because the last time I checked its
> meaning it was a computer-programmer's term for a "sloppy workaround" in a
> piece of computer code. It kinda works, but it's not stable and it's not
> really fully tested and fully thought-out. Unforseen consequences ensue,
> which in software means crasheds and a patch a little while down the line.

        I don't know about other programmers, but MY kludges work
fine.  The only problem is that they are UGLY.

                                                ---David
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