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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {feature creature}{flavorful}{tayste}]