Taste

/tāst/

[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 tasteful 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. flavor is a more popular word than taste, though both are used.
2. See also elegant.
3. Alt. sp. of tayste.