http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=CruftCruft - Revision history2026-05-04T12:50:21ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.18.0http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Cruft&diff=6445&oldid=prevJimbo at 03:18, 21 May 20062006-05-21T03:18:13Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Cruft''' is a generic term for specimens of code dubious to the point of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">simultaneous mild </del>nausea and fascination.  It frequently, but not invariably, refers to something that's "been in there so long everybody's afraid to touch it" because doing something about the obvious cruft might easily break four other things that have come to depend on its quirks.  (Derivation: think "crust", with a 1700's-style ''f'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">style s</del>.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Cruft''' is a generic term for specimens of code dubious to the point of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">simultaneously inducing </ins>nausea and fascination.  It frequently, but not invariably, refers to something that's "been in there so long everybody's afraid to touch it" because doing something about the obvious cruft might easily break four other things that have come to depend on its quirks.  (Derivation: think "crust", with a 1700's<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-New-England</ins>-style <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cursive s that looks like an </ins>''f''.)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Jimbohttp://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Cruft&diff=6444&oldid=prevJimbo at 03:16, 21 May 20062006-05-21T03:16:13Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Cruft''' is a generic term for specimens of code dubious to the point of simultaneous mild nausea and fascination. It frequently, but not invariably, refers to something that's "been in there so long everybody's afraid to touch it" because doing something about the obvious cruft might easily break four other things that have come to depend on its quirks. (Derivation: think "crust", with a 1700's-style ''f'' style s.)<br />
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