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> You might have also "Rube Goldberg machines" (should this
> not ring any bell, just Google it). But then I suspect it
> in French to refer to organizations or to administrative
> processes, not to physical devices as such. I would say
> that a Rube Goldberg machine works--in an absurdly complex
> unlikely constant supply of miracles.)
>
> Pierre Hallet
>
Thanks to your reply, I kwow now the Rube Goldberg machines. But you're
right, I rather have in mind the example of a software providing a
service for many years and for which many patches had been installed to
correct bugs, and patches'bugs and patches'patches'bugs and so on.
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