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cruft
(encz) | cruft,nadbytečný zdrojový kód programu n: [slang.] [it.] slady |
cruft
(foldoc) | cruft
crufted
(back-formation from "crufty") Anything unpleasant
that accumulates over time. Also used as a verb, as in {cruft
together}, hand cruft.
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cruft
(jargon) | 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 of redundant or superseded code.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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cruft together
(foldoc) | cruft together
To hack together though with the suggestion that
the result may be cruft.
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crufted
(foldoc) | cruft
crufted
(back-formation from "crufty") Anything unpleasant
that accumulates over time. Also used as a verb, as in {cruft
together}, hand cruft.
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hand cruft
(foldoc) | hand cruft
(After "hand craft") To write something by hand
that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing
assembly language instead of using a compiler (see {hand
hacking}).
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cruft together
(jargon) | cruft together
vt.
(also cruft up) To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
Like vt. kluge up, but more pejorative. “There isn't any program now to
reverse all the lines of a file, but I can probably cruft one together in
about 10 minutes.” See hack together, hack up, kluge up, crufty.
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cruftsmanship
(jargon) | cruftsmanship
/kruhfts'm@n·ship /, n.
[from cruft] The antithesis of craftsmanship.
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crufty
(jargon) | crufty
/kruhf'tee/, adj.
[very common; origin unknown; poss. from ‘crusty’ or ‘cruddy’]
1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The canonical example is “This is
standard old crufty DEC software”. In fact, one fanciful theory of the
origin of crufty holds that was originally a mutation of ‘crusty’ applied
to DEC software so old that the ‘s’ characters were tall and skinny,
looking more like ‘f’ characters.
2. Unpleasant, especially to the touch, often with encrusted junk. Like
spilled coffee smeared with peanut butter and catsup.
3. Generally unpleasant.
4. (sometimes spelled cruftie) n. A small crufty object (see frob); often
one that doesn't fit well into the scheme of things. “A LISP property list
is a good place to store crufties (or, collectively, random cruft).”
This term is one of the oldest in the jargon and no one is sure of its
etymology, but it is suggestive that there is a Cruft Hall at Harvard
University which is part of the old physics building; it's said to have
been the physics department's radar lab during WWII. To this day (early
1993) the windows appear to be full of random techno-junk. MIT or Lincoln
Labs people may well have coined the term as a knock on the competition.
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hand cruft
(jargon) | hand cruft
vt.
[pun on ‘hand craft’] See cruft, sense 3.
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