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• cruft: /kruhft/ [back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n.
  An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
• hand-hacking: n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code.
  Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon....
• hand cruft vt. [pun on `hand craft'] See cruft, sense 3.
• crufty /kruhf'tee/ adj. [very common; origin unknow
  poss. from `crusty' or `cruddy'] 1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex....
• crufty: /kruhf'tee/ [origin unknown; poss. from `crusty'] adj.
  1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The {canonical} example is "This is standard old crufty {DEC} software"....
• cruftsmanship: /kruhfts'm*n-ship / n. [from {cruft}] The antithesis of craftsmanship.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• cruftsmanship /kruhfts'm*n-ship / n. [from cruft] The antithesis of craftsmanship.
• lop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• gensym: /jen'sim/ [from MacLISP for `generated symbol'] 1.
  v. To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use....