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kludginess en · NOUN

Etymology

From kludgey /kludgy + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The quality of being kludgy.
   • The only challenge is the last item: routing messages to modeless dialogs. Naturally we want to do it automatically and invisibly so applications never see a difference between modal and modeless dialogs. Why should they be different? The message routing is just more Windows kludginess—but kludginess we can hide. 1992 June, Paul DiLascia, “Modeless Dialogs”, in Windows++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++ (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series), Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Dialogs), page 314:
   • ALPHA-ASET checks for a non-quoted first argument. (Presently RABBIT does not allow for computed ASET variables. Since RABBIT was written, such computed variables have in fact been banned from the SCHEME language [Revised Report].) For simplicity, it also does not allow altering a global variable which is the name of a MacLISP primitive. This restriction is related only to the kludginess of the PDP-10 MacLISP SCHEME implementation, and is not an essential problem with the language. 1978 May, Guy Lewis Steele, Jr., RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME (A Dialect of LISP). […] (AI-TR-474), Cambridge, Mass.: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 138:
   • This is not a great Windows application, but 1-2-3 V1.1 for Windows is the best implementation of 1-2-3. The program feels anchored in its 1-2-3-ness, with accommodations as necessary in order to exist under Windows, rather than one that enthusiastically embraces the Windows style. However, this has provided a way for the Lotus folk to get around the kludginess of the WYSIWYG add-in that provides mouse support, as well as fonts and layout, in the high-end 1-2-3 V3.1 for DOS. 1993, David S. Quimby, “Popular Spreadsheet Programs”, in PC Power: A Guide to DOS and Windows Systems for Computer-Literate Users, Horsham, Pa.: CBM Books, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Data Applications), page 30:

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