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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: Good Thing n.,adj. [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.