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• brittle adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself.
  Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli...
• commercially developed software, which displays the quality far more often than it ought to.
  Oppose {robust}....
• obust: adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.
  One step below {bulletproof}. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail....
• uke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• mart: adj. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances.
  There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intellige...
• well-behaved: adj. 1. [primarily {{MS-DOS}}] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
  Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• obust adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.
  One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....