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The portable definition of good taste in software development is likely something like fitness to purpose, i.e. how well does the taste lend itself to producing good software, where good software in turn is software that does what it is indented to do.

If you want to go more concrete than that, you need additional parameters, otherwise you risk ending up with a broken compass that only points north in organizations similar in size and other properties to the ones you've worked in before.



Fitness for a purpose has a very deep meaning. In "The Timeless Way of Building" Christopher Alexander used this term as the last attempt to describe "the quality without a name".




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