Good Thing: n.,adj. [very common; often capitalized; always
pronounced as if capitalized.] 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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