taste

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