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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
smart
adj. Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet see AI-complete ). Compare robust (smart programs can be brittle ).