Klugy

Synonyms for "klugy"

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There is a klugy way around this problem, but it won’t work with justified text, and you have to indent the first line of every paragraph.

Source: wiktionary

Those who believe that natural selection optimizes, should expect it to build a nonpunctuate mind elegantly, by building a language of thought, rather than a klugy network which has systematicity wired in a step at a time by Mother Programmer.

Source: wiktionary

Life, all life, is potentially prodigious—the selection or persistence of the few through time resembles less the will of an omnipotent creator than the scrambling of a klugy computer programmer. (“Klugy” is computer talk for a program that is not well designed or even well understood but has, rather, been meddled and fiddled with until it works.)

Source: wiktionary

We wanted to have a derived class of a built-in type. In particular, we wanted to derive objects from gnu's Pix type (which is typedef'ed to void*). We have had to do a somewhat klugier derivation that made the Pix be the sole member of a class.

Source: wiktionary

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