noddy
:noddy: /nod'ee/ adj. [UK: from the children's books] 1. Small and
un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written
by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy
program is hello world
Noddy code may be used to demonstrate a
feature or bug of a compiler. May be used of real hardware or software
to imply that it isn't worth using. "This editor's a bit noddy." 2. A
program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use, the term
does not necessarily connote uselessness, but describes a hack
sufficiently trivial that it can be written and debugged while carrying
on (and during the space of) a normal conversation. "I'll just throw
together a noddy awk
script to dump all the first fields." In North
America this might be called a mickey mouse program
. See {toy program}
.
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