Even with the best intentions, projects build up technical debt and crufty bad things.— No Fluff Just Stuff
MySQLdb was originally developed for Python 1.5 so some old crufty stuff is still hiding out in there.— Planet Python
As soon as I tried to hack a blog into a photo gallery, or a links feed, or a statistics database, a game of Sudoku, or whatever else I could think of, things started to get crufty.— doggdot.us
It is certainly possible to build good, running systems with the object-oriented mindset, but as requirements and technologies change, these systems become crufty and hard to maintain.— Latest headlines from JavaWorld
All in all, Google seems to have stuck to a fairly open and non-proprietary model including avoiding crufty proprietary markup.— Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0

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