Yep, it's way older than that. According to the Jargon File (which has also appeared in print in various editions, and which I'd trust a lot more than some random Van Nostrand "encyclopedia"), the above would be a reasonable statement if you replace "coined" by "popularized": kluge ... The variant 'kludge' was apparently popularized by the Datamation article mentioned under kludge; it was titled How to Design a Kludge (February 1962, pp. 30, 31). ... For all the details, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kluge.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kludge.html -- Tim Mann tim at tim-mann.org http://tim-mann.org/