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