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cruft: /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from crufty]
1. n. An unpleasant substance.
The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; the TMRC Dictionary
correctly noted that attacking it with a broom only produces more. 2. n. The results of shoddy
construction. 3. vt. [from hand cruft, pun on ‘hand craft’] To
write assembler code for something normally (and better) done by a compiler
(see hand-hacking). 4. n. Excess; superfluous junk;
used esp. of redundant or superseded code. 5. [University of Wisconsin] n.
Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese; that is, at UW one properly says
“a cruft of hackers”.
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