taste

taste [primarily MIT] n.  1. The quality in a program that
   tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features,
   hacks, and kluges programmed into it.  Also `tasty',
   `tasteful', `tastefulness'.  "This feature comes in N
   tasty flavors."  Although `tasty' and `flavorful' are
   essentially synonyms, `taste' and {flavor} are not.  Taste
   refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or
   feature can *exhibit* taste but cannot *have* taste.  On
   the other hand, a feature can have {flavor}.  Also, {flavor}
   has the additional meaning of `kind' or `variety' not shared by
   `taste'.  The marked sense of {flavor} is more popular than
   `taste', though both are widely used.  See also {elegant}.
   2. Alt. sp. of {tayste}.