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good thing : FOLDOC
Good Thing
(From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised.
1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The {Trailblazer}'s 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with {on-the-fly} Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews".
2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the {self-modifying code} from that {shared library} would be a Good Thing".
3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load.
Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
[Jargon File]
(1995-05-07)



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