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well-behaved
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adj. 1. Software that does its job quietly and without counterintuitive
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effects. Esp.: said of software having an interface spec sufficiently simple
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and well-defined that it can be used as a tool by other software. See cat.
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2. Said of an algorithm that doesn't crash or blow up , even when given
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pathological input. Implies that the stability of the algorithm is
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intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from bulletproof.
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