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Good Thing
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n.,adj. [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the
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1930 Sellar Yeatman parody of British history 1066 And All That , but
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well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.] 1. Self-evidently
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wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: A language that manages dynamic
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memory automatically for you is a Good Thing. 2. Something that can't
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possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later:
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Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good
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Thing. 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in YACC is a Good
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Thing , specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a
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programmer's work load. Oppose Bad Thing.
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