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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 of redundant or superseded code. 5.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".


see also:
crufty hand-hacking 

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Cruft Definition
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DDJ
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jargon, node: cruft
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Charles Cruft 1825-1883
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Definition of Cruft from dictionary.net
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