Nessus@nsc.UUCP (07/14/83)
Is the word spelled "kludge" or "kluge". A company that I worked for a
long time ago had some prototype wire-wrap boards labelled "kluge card".
Seriously, this was etched into the board, like a regular board name!!
Nessusellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis) (07/15/83)
The spelling "kludge" is going to reinforce the stereotypical image held by the rest of the world that "real programers ca'nt spell" [sic]. Spelled "kludge", the word would obviously rhyme with "fudge". Now everyone I've heard says "klooge", rhyming with "stooge". To my eye, a word spelt "kluge" would also be pronounced the same way. I seem to recall a rule in the 2nd grade about short vowels followed by 2 consonants, or something like that... It's not too late -- we may still be able to reverse the current tendency to misspell yet another word soon to be established in the English vocabulary. And they'll remember for centuries, it was computer people f**ked that one up...
ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. Tucker Withington) (07/18/83)
I don't know, "kludge" has a nice look to it; it's rather onomatapoetic.
rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (07/18/83)
It's actually spelled 'cluge,' as in "The CLUge Reference Manual." --critic of languages... -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)
mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (07/18/83)
As I heard it, "kluge" comes from the German for "clever". A Kluge, then, is originally a clever way of solving a problem. But what programmers used to call clever, we now prefer to call cute (or worse), so a kluge is a not particularly smart way to be clever.
bane@umcp-cs.UUCP (07/19/83)
I like 'kludge' BECAUSE it's inconsistent; the spelling
looks kludgier that way.
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Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!banetugs@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Hull) (07/21/83)
"tendency to misspell", my eye! The correct spelling was, is and hopefully
always will be KLUDGE. Anyone who's concerned about consistent rules of
pronunciation is barking up the wrong language. English has a proud and
honourable history of being the easies language to learn to speak and the
hardest to learn to write, so let's not muss it up with more synthetic
adherence to (shudder) rules of spelling!
Remember what Bernard Shaw said about "ghoti"...
Yours demi-sincerely,
steve hull
decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!tugsres@cbosgd.UUCP (07/22/83)
Enough of Kludge vs Kluge. When you all pronounce it, do you say Klooooge (like foo with a "ge" on the end) or Kludge (like fudge)? I have heard it both ways, although the former seems to be predominant. -- Robert Stampfli