Oliver Garfield writes:
> what is munging?
In the <http://www.unicom.com/FAQ/reply-to-harmful.html> rant, I
link to the Jargon File at <http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/>
for the definition:
munge /muhnj/ /vt./ 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform
information. 2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data
structure or the whole program. 3. To modify data in some way
the speaker doesn't need to go into right now or cannot describe
succinctly (compare mumble).
This term is often confused with mung, which probably was
derived from it. However, it also appears the word `munge' was
in common use in Scotland in the 1940s, and in Yorkshire in
the 1950s, as a verb, meaning to munch up into a masticated
mess, and as a noun, meaning the result of munging something
up (the parallel with the kluge/kludge pair is amusing).
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Chip Rosenthal * Unicom Systems Development * <chip@unicom.com>
URL: http://www.unicom.com/ * 4868D8BE10C86BDE 6017000BA783998E
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