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• obust adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.
  One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail....
• mart: adj. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances.
  There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intellige...
• brittle: adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself.
  Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli...
• mart adj. Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances.
  There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intellige...
• bulletproof: adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely {robust}
  lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition -- a rare and valued quality....
• ot ready for prime time: adj. Usable, but only just so
  ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....
• fragile: adj. Syn {brittle}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• brittle adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself.
  Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli...
• ourist: [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms)....