Comp sci: what is cruft?
Self-tutoring about computer science: the tutor mentions the word cruft.
As I understand, one meaning of cruft is unneeded code, or even hardware, that’s found in a working installation. In such a case, cruft can be bypassed without affecting the performance of the containing installation.
To me, “cruft” brings to mind commented-out code that’s either been replaced with better or else reflects a direction the programmer chose against. Many computer science students and programmers might think of countless lines of code they left commented out, yet didn’t delete, just in case a time might come when they want to revisit those bypassed ideas.
Source:
YouTube: Alan D Moore Codes: Tkinter vs PyQt: Which Python GUI framework is right for you?
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