kludge 1. /klooj/ n.
Incorrect (though regrettably
common) spelling of kluge (US). These two words have been
confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely
confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II.
2. [TMRC] A crock that works. (A long-ago "Datamation"
article by Jackson Granholme similarly said: "An ill-assorted
collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing
whole.") 3. v. To use a kludge to get around a problem. "I've
kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later."
This word appears to have derived from Scots `kludge' or
`kludgie' for a common toilet, via British military slang. It
apparently became confused with U.S. kluge during or after
World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in
definably different ways, but kluge is now uncommon in Great
Britain. `Kludge' in Commonwealth hackish differs in meaning from
`kluge' in that it lacks the positive senses; a kludge is something
no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated too closely with.
Also, `kludge' is more widely known in British mainstream slang
than `kluge' is in the U.S.
Incorrect (though regrettably
common) spelling of kluge (US). These two words have been
confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely
confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II.
2. [TMRC] A crock that works. (A long-ago "Datamation"
article by Jackson Granholme similarly said: "An ill-assorted
collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing
whole.") 3. v. To use a kludge to get around a problem. "I've
kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later."
This word appears to have derived from Scots `kludge' or
`kludgie' for a common toilet, via British military slang. It
apparently became confused with U.S. kluge during or after
World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in
definably different ways, but kluge is now uncommon in Great
Britain. `Kludge' in Commonwealth hackish differs in meaning from
`kluge' in that it lacks the positive senses; a kludge is something
no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated too closely with.
Also, `kludge' is more widely known in British mainstream slang
than `kluge' is in the U.S.
Related:
- TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to
have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII
military slang (see also foobar).
It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything,
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
1. A Rube Goldberg device in hard/software. 2. A clever... - munge /muhnj/ vt.
1. [derogatory] To imperfectly
transform information.
2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure... - kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)]... - Kludge, n:
An ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts,
forming a distressing whole. -- Jackson Granholm... - kludge: /klooj/ or /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant
of {kluge},
q.v. -- The AI Hackers... - mung /muhng/ vt.
[in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good';
sometime after that the derivation from the recursive... - mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good';
sometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive...
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[WPI] 1. An indication of confusion,
usually spoken with a quizzical tone: "Wall??" ... - backreference n.
1. In a regular expression or pattern
match,
the text which was matched within grouping parentheses... - toy program n.
1. One that can be readily comprehended;
hence, a trivial program (compare noddy). 2. One for... - GOSMACS /goz'maks/ n.
[contraction of `Gosling
EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation,
predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS. ... - terminal junkie n.
[UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends mos
directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of
computer time.
Variants include `terminal...
