[Israel.pm] Perl 6 Critique

[Srikanth Madani]

Nice article, and the ensuing thread was v interesting.

<slightly OT stuff follows>

I encountered a new word : cruft. I couldn't find it in the dictionary, so I
googled for it. These are the top results.

1. Crufts is the world's greatest dog-show <www.crufts.org.uk>

2. An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft.

3. n. The results of shoddy construction.

4. vt. [from `hand cruft', pun on `hand craft'] To write assembler code for
something normally (and better) done by a compiler (see hand-hacking).

5. n. Excess; superfluous junk; used esp. of redundant or superseded code.

6. [University of Wisconsin] n. Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese;
that is, at UW one properly says "a cruft of hackers".

And the most interesting :
Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The canonical example is “This is
standard old crufty DEC software”. In fact, one fanciful theory of the
origin of crufty holds that was originally a mutation of ‘crusty’ applied to
DEC software so old that the ‘s’ characters were tall and skinny, looking
more like ‘f’ characters.




Cheers,
Srikanth Madani

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