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dusty deck
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain
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compatible with, or to maintain ( DP types call this legacy code , a term
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hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent). The term implies that the
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software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used esp. when
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referring to old scientific and number-crunching software, much of which was
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written in FORTRAN and very poorly documented but is believed to be too
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expensive to replace. See fossil ; compare crawling horror.
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