happily

   Of  software,  used  to  emphasize  that a program is unaware of some
   important  fact  about  its  environment,  either because it has been
   fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of
   `happy'  here  is  not  that  of elation, but rather that of blissful
   ignorance.  "The  program  continues to run, happily unaware that its
   output is going to /dev/null." Also used to suggest that a program or
   device  would  really  rather  be doing something destructive, and is
   being  given an opportunity to do so. "If you enter an O here instead
   of   a   zero,  the  program  will  happily  erase  all  your  data."
   Nevertheless,  use  of  this term implies a basically benign attitude
   towards the program: It didn't mean any harm, it was just eager to do
   its  job. We'd like to be angry at it but we shouldn't, we should try
   to understand it instead. The adjective "cheerfully" is often used in
   exactly the same way.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {cheerfully}{hamster}]