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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to
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the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also tasty ,
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tasteful , tastefulness. This feature comes in N tasty flavors. Although
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tasty and flavorful are essentially synonyms, taste and flavor are not.
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Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or
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feature can exhibit taste but cannot have taste. On the other hand, a
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feature can have flavor. Also, flavor has the additional meaning of kind or
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variety not shared by taste. The marked sense of flavor is more popular than
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taste , though both are widely used. See also elegant. 2. Alt. sp. of
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tayste.
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