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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Good Thing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gonzo.html" title="gonzo"/><link rel="next" href="google.html" title="google"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Good Thing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gonzo.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="google.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Good-Thing"/><dt xmlns="" id="Good-Thing"><b>Good Thing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the
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1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody of British history <i class="citetitle">1066 And All
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That</i>, but well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.]
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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice:
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“<span class="quote">A language that manages dynamic memory automatically for you is a
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Good Thing.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may
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save considerable grief later: “<span class="quote">Removing the self-modifying code from
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that shared library would be a Good Thing.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in “<span class="quote">YACC is a
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Good Thing</span>”, specifically connotes that the thing has drastically
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reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose
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