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DO we have a term for this in the small?

Those small utilities you wrote a decade ago in perl when your company was tiny, over a couple of days that end up a staple of daily use in a company 10 years later and any attempt to re-factor or replace them 10 years way is met with extreme resistance? What do we call that - Crappy-enough software? (I say this as the author)

(Actually, going back and looking at said code, it's not badly written at all, it's entirely readable, a few perl scripts, no spaghetti, and it's clear how they interoperate just by reading them. So it's not crappy or badly written - it's just overly simplistic.)




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