and there was much rejoicing

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and there was much rejoicing - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  and there was much rejoicing
  
  
     [from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.]
  
     Acknowledgement of a notable accomplishment. Something long-awaited,
     widely desired, possibly unexpected but secretly wished-for, with a
     suggestion that something about the problem (and perhaps the steps
     necessary to make it go away) was deeply disturbing to hacker
     sensibilities.
  
     In person, the phrase is almost invariably pronounced with the same
     portentious intonation as the movie. The customary in-person
     (approving) response is a weak and halfhearted "Yaaaay...", with one
     index finger raised like a flag and moved in a small circle. The
     reason for this, like most of the Monty Python oeuvre, cannot easily
     be explained outside its original context.
  
     Example: "changelog entry #436: with the foo driver brain damage
  taken
     care of, finally obsoleted BROKEN_EVIL_KLUDGE. Removed from source
     tree. (And there was much rejoicing)."