kluge 音标拼音: [kl'udʒ]
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/klooj /, /kluhj / (From German "klug " /kloog / - clever
and Scottish "{kludge }") 1 . A Rube Goldberg (or Heath
Robinson ) device , whether in {hardware } or {software }.
The spelling "kluge " (as opposed to "kludge ") was used in
connection with computers as far back as the mid -1950s and , at
that time , was used exclusively of *hardware * kluges .
2 . A clever programming trick intended to solve
a particular nasty case in an expedient , if not clear , manner .
Often used to repair bugs . Often involves {ad -hockery } and
verges on being a {crock }. In fact , the TMRC Dictionary
defined "kludge " as "a crock that works ".
3 . Something that works for the wrong reason .
4 . ({WPI }) A {feature } that is implemented in a {rude } manner .
In 1947 , the "New York Folklore Quarterly " reported a classic
shaggy -dog story "Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker " then current in
the Armed Forces , in which a "kluge " was a complex and
puzzling artifact with a trivial function . Other sources
report that "kluge " was common Navy slang in the WWII era for
any piece of electronics that worked well on shore but
consistently failed at sea .
However , there is reason to believe this slang use may be a
decade older . Several respondents have connected it to the
brand name of a device called a "Kluge paper feeder " dating
back at least to 1935 , an adjunct to mechanical printing
presses . The Kluge feeder was designed before small , cheap
electric motors and control electronics ; it relied on a
fiendishly complex assortment of cams , belts , and linkages to
both power and synchronise all its operations from one motive
driveshaft . It was accordingly tempermental , subject to
frequent breakdowns , and devilishly difficult to repair - but
oh , so clever ! One traditional folk etymology of "klugen "
makes it the name of a design engineer ; in fact , "Kluge " is a
surname in German , and the designer of the Kluge feeder may
well have been the man behind this myth .
TMRC } and the MIT hacker culture of the early 1960s 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 of the many military
electronics projects run in Cambridge during the war (many in
MIT 's venerable Building 20 , which housed {TMRC } until the
building was demolished in 1999 ).
Jargon File }]
2002 -10 -02 )
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