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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