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taste [primarily MIT] n.
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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