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Thursday, February 28, 2019

The Sutton News installs a new Kluge printing press in 1944.

The Sutton News newspaper installed a new automatic printing press in early 1944 providing evidence supporting its claim in the article that the News printing plant was second to none in this part of the state.






There really was, and is a company that uses the name "Kluge" beginning in November 1919 as Brandtjen & Kluge, LLC as described in their web site - Brandtjen & Kluge.  


A fun question remains. Do you suppose our word "kluge" comes from this company? Or better yet, "kludge?" 



Kluge (English: /ˈklɡi/German: [ˈkluːɡə]) is a German-derived surname. In German, capitalizing, and adding a final e to, the adjective klug (meaning "clever"), creates a noun; it is applicable to females and means "clever one".



kludge or kluge (/klʌkl/) is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer scienceaerospace engineeringInternet slangevolutionary neuroscience, and government. A software kludge (often called "spaghetti code") is frequently the result of hacking. See photo of "A network kludge" at right.


I'm more familiar with the second word, which we spelled "kluge" perhaps erroneously, or at least using the alternate spelling. Software development lends itself to including a kluge in the coding that will serve the purpose, generally, rather than making a major re-write to produce a clean program - no one will look at the source code again, at least for a long time....




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