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Definition of Utility

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: A utility is a small program that performs a task. Developers often write small utilities to do some useful task. Because they are basically throw away programs they are rarely tested or written to be maintainable.

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Examples:
i wrote a utility program to tell me how many lines of code I'd written
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