1. good thing
[very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the
1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody of British history 1066 And All
That, but well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.]
1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice:
“A language that manages dynamic memory automatically for you is a
Good Thing.” 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may
save considerable grief later: “Removing the self-modifying code from
that shared library would be a Good Thing.” 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in “YACC is a
Good Thing”, specifically connotes that the thing has drastically
reduced a programmer's work load. Oppose
Bad Thing.
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Definitions of good thing
