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kludginess

kludginess noun: the quality of being kludgy.

Noun

kludginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being kludgy.
    • 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...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...
    • 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...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...

Examples of kludginess in a sentence

  • 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...
  • 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)...
  • 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...

Forms of kludginess

alternative formkludgeyness
alternative formklugeyness
alternative formkluginess

Origin of kludginess

From kludgey /kludgy + -ness.

Questions about kludginess

What does kludginess mean?
Kludginess means the quality of being kludgy.
How do you use kludginess in a sentence?
This restriction is related only to the kludginess of the PDP-10 MacLISP SCHEME implementation, and is not an essential problem with the language.
What part of speech is kludginess?
Kludginess is a noun.

Words near kludginess in the dictionary

  1. kludgie
  2. kludgier
  3. kludgies
  4. kludgiest
  5. kludgily
  6. kludginess
  7. kludging
  8. kludging out
  9. kludgy
  10. Kluesner
  11. Kluesners

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