Definitions
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- noun computing, informal Anything old or of inferior quality.
- noun computing, informal Redundant, old or improperly written
code , especially that which accumulates over time;clutter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I mean, I feel better when I get my schedule and todo items recorded and not cluttering my brain, I wonder what other cruft is knocking around up there.
Minor Observations melted_snowball 2007
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As a result, many of us have thousands of old, unneeded files -- a.k.a. "cruft" -- cluttering our hard drives.
PCWorld 2010
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As a result, many of us have thousands of old, unneeded files -- a.k.a. "cruft" -- cluttering our hard drives.
PCWorld 2010
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Magic Signatures correctly eschews all the usual X. 509 cruft, which is completely unnecessary here; all you need is a simple RSA public key.
Planet XML James Clark 2010
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Ignoring the indirect syscall cruft we the call the handler and the real work of the syscall is executed.
Planet Sun 2008
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My personal preference would be to get rid of the "cruft" (cute word, that).
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The jargon file discusses it, but everything it says about 'cruft' looks off to me.
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As the entry points out, 'cruft' was in the TMRC dictionary, which is about as old as we are.
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The elimination of the text or "cruft" from the search results page, leaving a mosaic of images.
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The elimination of the text "cruft" also means that the metadata will only show up as a user hovers over the image result.
sussman commented on the word cruft
"Cruft" is a word used by programmers to describe "an old mess which gets in the way." A programmer might say to another: "I'll fix that bug just as soon as I remove all the cruft in the function."
March 27, 2009
sussman commented on the word cruft
"Cruft is computing jargon for "code, data, or software of poor quality", according to the Hacker's Dictionary.
"Man, I have to clean up all this cruft first before I write a clean implementation."
April 17, 2009
gjb commented on the word cruft
cruft is used in the context of software development to indicate dead code or data, i.e., code or data fragments that are no longer used.
September 30, 2009
swordnik commented on the word cruft
I just used 'cruft' in a non-technical conversation, not realizing this was only techie jargon. It was crystal clear from my context what the meaning was, so I didn't even get a funny look.
April 9, 2010