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smart 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 intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet -- see [AI-complete]). Compare [robust] (smart programs can be [brittle]).


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