[ale] cruft

[Sergio Chaves]

Reminds me of the good ol'times reading Asterix The Gaul comics -
http://www.asterix.com/ :-)
https://www.facebook.com/tulius.detritus.7?fref=browse_search


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> detritus is another
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>
>>  It is a word I use frequently when looking at some of the legacy junk
>> around my workplace!
>>
>>
>>  *From*: Sean Kilpatrick [mailto:kilpatms at gmail.com]
>> *Sent*: Friday, March 21, 2014 06:58 PM Central Standard Time
>> *To*: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
>> *Subject*: [ale] cruft
>>
>>
>> This is a word I have used for years.
>>
>>  When I used it tonight at dinner my wife asked me what it meant.
>>
>> And, as we are both liberal arts types, she wanted to know its origin.
>>
>> So I grabbed the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), Volume "C" only to
>> discover that the word isn't there. It also isn't in my (weighty) American
>> Heritage Dictionary.
>>
>> WTF
>>
>>  But Google is your friend. :)
>>
>>  This word comes to us out of MIT, where it first appeared in the club
>> dictionary of the (MIT) Tech Model Railroad Club in 1959!
>>
>> It -- perhaps -- arose out of MIT's Cruft Laboratory (c. 1915) which was
>> used as a radar lab during WW II.
>>
>>  So how many knew the origin of this word? And its meaning: detritus,
>> left over crud, especially these days leftover code that leads to
>> dependency hell?
>>
>>  Sean
>>
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> It won't fatten the dog.
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