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Definitions by Kyle Adams
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1. The dust that gathers underneath a
bed
, 2. Shoddily constructed or made, 3.
Bad
code, 4. Accumulated physical or virtual
junk
.
Jim
had to spend several days
cleaning
up the cruft left behind in the
code
by the newbie programmer.
cruft
by
Kyle Adams
December 17, 2003