Crawling horror 9/15/2005 01:44:00 PM (See what I'm talking about)
Dictionary.com/crawling horror: " Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers
at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. 'Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror.'"

You don't want to know how I found this. I wonder if I should put this in my list of skills for my IBM application?
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