Well , it's hypothesised that the first form of life was actually clay crystals (those that silted up the flood plains were the most sucessful!). And clay makes mud, so we're on to something - or getting way off the track.
Cheers.

>>>John
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>>>At least now I have a socialbly acceptable name for what I've been doing all these years :-O
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>>We called it the evolutionary model. It all just grows and adapts and the bits that aren't used drop off in time and the goods bits get better.
>>I like it!
>>But from now on it's the BBMM, the big ball of mud model. My clients will love it.
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>Mud, evolution, growth, hummm.. This may be more than a pattern, it might be an entire methodology. How about OGP for Organically Grown Programming ? ;-)