crufty

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And as I said, the construction to map HTTP request to internal API call is kind of crufty and insecure.

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  • 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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