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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. Oppose [ill-behaved]. 2. Software that does its job quietly and without counterintuitive effects. Esp. said of software having an interface spec sufficiently simple and well-defined that it can be used as a [tool] by other software. See [cat]. 3. Said of an algorithm that doesn't [crash] or [blow up], even when given [pathological] input. Implies that the stability of the algorithm is intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from [bulletproof].
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