Matthew Gregan wrote:
You're both wrong. You get an F. A hardware hack of that type (POTS) is a kluge. Check the original JARGON file, or FOLDOC.
You're not English are you :-).
They seem to think that they are the canonical source of the language named after them ;-)
I accept the correction and fully stand behind the kluge form.
I don't. I use kludge (rhymes with fudge) all the time and many of my fellow programmers around also use it. *Therefore* it exists and is a valid form. :-P
That might sound arrogant but I think that if a group of people use a (human)language component, that component then becomes part of that language.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kluge.html
All because ESR doesn't have kludge in his dictionary just means it is out of date :-)
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