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Good Thing n.,adj.
[very common; 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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