Taste




1. (primarily MIT) The quality of a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges it contains.

Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator.

See also elegant, flavour.

2. Alternative spelling of "tayste".

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TARTAN
Task Control Block
task scheduling
TASM
TASS
 Emacs
feature creature
gedanken
hard-wired
misfeature
 tautological probability
tautological set
tautology
TAWK
Taxis