JARGON WORD FOR ANYTHING THAT IS LEFT OVER, REDUNDANT AND GETTING IN THE WAY; DEFECTIVE, SUPERSEDED, USELESS, SUPERFLUOUS, OR DYSFUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Crufty; Software cruft; Rubbage; Cruft (software)
crufty
Cross between crusty and crappy. Stale, old, and uninspiring. Professor Van Brummenumphle's lecture on the Kinetic Molecular Theory and Fluffy Bunnies was pretty crufty.
Cruft
Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software.
<jargon> (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
Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software.