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Good Thing
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Good Thing /n.,adj./ Often capitalized; always pronounced as
if capitalized. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a
position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2Kbaud 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. Oppose Bad
Thing.
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