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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