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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>taste</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tardegy.html" title="tardegy"/><link rel="next" href="tayste.html" title="tayste"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">taste</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tardegy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tayste.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="taste"/><dt xmlns="" id="taste"><b>taste</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional
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to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also
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<span class="firstterm">tasty</span>, <span class="firstterm">tasteful</span>, <span class="firstterm">tastefulness</span>. “<span class="quote">This feature comes in
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<tt class="literal">N</tt> tasty flavors.</span>” Although
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<span class="firstterm">tasty</span> and <span class="firstterm">flavorful</span> are essentially synonyms, <span class="firstterm">taste</span> and <a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a> are
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not. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program
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or feature can <span class="emphasis"><em>exhibit</em></span> taste but cannot
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<span class="emphasis"><em>have</em></span> taste. On the other hand, a feature can have
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<a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a>. Also, <a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a> has the
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additional meaning of ‘kind’ or ‘variety’ not
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shared by <span class="firstterm">taste</span>. The marked sense of
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<a href="../F/flavor.html"><i class="glossterm">flavor</i></a> is more popular than <span class="firstterm">taste</span>, though both are widely used. See also
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<a href="../E/elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Alt. sp. of <a href="tayste.html"><i class="glossterm">tayste</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tardegy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tayste.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tardegy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tayste</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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