Brief (stylized BRIEF or B.R.I.E.F., a backronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility), is a once-popular programmer's text editor in the 1980s and early 1990s.

[1] Brief was designed and developed by UnderWare Inc,[2] a company founded in Providence, Rhode Island by David Nanian and Michael Strickman,[3] and was published by Solution Systems.

[6] In 1990 Solutions Systems brought in Eric Perkins as technical architect and team lead to port the OS/2 version of Brief to the Windows platform as quickly as possible.

Within 6 months, the team of Eric Perkins, Blake Nelson and Jeff Simpson worked closely with David Nanian and Mike Strickman and ported Brief OS/2 to Windows using an MVC architecture.

The original product features contain: Both the Brief interface and its functionality had a following, and they live on via SourceForge's GRIEF.