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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>well-behaved</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="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="Weenix.html" title="Weenix"/><link rel="next" href="well-connected.html" title="well-connected"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">well-behaved</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Weenix.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="well-connected.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="well-behaved"/><dt xmlns="" id="well-behaved"><b>well-behaved</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Software that does its job quietly and without counterintuitive
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effects. Esp.: said of software having an interface spec sufficiently
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simple and well-defined that it can be used as a
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<a href="../T/tool.html"><i class="glossterm">tool</i></a> by other software. See
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<a href="../C/cat.html"><i class="glossterm">cat</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Said of an algorithm that doesn't <a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>
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or <a href="../B/blow-up.html"><i class="glossterm">blow up</i></a>, even when given
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<a href="../P/pathological.html"><i class="glossterm">pathological</i></a> input. Implies that the stability of
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the algorithm is intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from
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