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crufty, a. Computing slang.
Brit. |ˈkrʌfti|, U.S. |ˈkrəfti|
[Apparently ‹cruft n.2 + -y suffix1: see discussion at cruft n.2]
Of software: poorly designed, esp. unnecessarily or unintentionally complex; containing redundant code.
1981CoEvolution Q. Spring 29/1 Crufty, poorly built, possibly overly complex. ‘This is standard old crufty DEC software.’ 1984J. Varley in S. Williams Hugo & Nebula Award Winners from Asimov's Sci. Fiction (1995) 178 Routines so bletcherous they'd make your skin crawl. Real crufty bagbiters. 2005C. Stross Accelerando vii. 332 There's lots of crufty twentieth-century bugware kicking around under your shiny new singularity. |