taste

1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also tasty, tasteful, tastefulness. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors." Although tasty and flavorful are essentially synonyms, taste and {flavor} are not. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or feature can exhibit taste but cannot have taste. On the other hand, a feature can have {flavor}. Also, {flavor} has the additional meaning of `kind' or `variety' not shared by taste. The marked sense of {flavor} is more popular than taste, though both are widely used. See also {elegant}.
2. Alt. sp. of {tayste}.

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