Good Thing N.,adj. [very Common; Often Capitalized

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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: "A language that manages
dynamic memory automatically for you is a Good Thing."
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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