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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>noddy</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="no-op.html" title="no-op"/><link rel="next" href="non-optimal-solution.html" title="non-optimal solution"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">noddy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="no-op.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="non-optimal-solution.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="noddy"/><dt xmlns="" id="noddy"><b>noddy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nod´ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [UK: from the children's books]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs
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are often written by people learning a new language or system. The
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archetypal noddy program is <a href="../H/hello-world.html"><i class="glossterm">hello world</i></a>. Noddy code
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may be used to demonstrate a feature or bug of a compiler. May be used of
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real hardware or software to imply that it isn't worth using. “<span class="quote">This
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editor's a bit noddy.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use,
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the term does not necessarily connote uselessness, but describes a
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<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a> sufficiently trivial that it can be written and
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debugged while carrying on (and during the space of) a normal conversation.
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“<span class="quote">I'll just throw together a noddy <a href="../A/awk.html"><i class="glossterm">awk</i></a> script
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to dump all the first fields.</span>” In North America this might be called
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a <a href="../M/mickey-mouse-program.html"><i class="glossterm">mickey mouse program</i></a>. See
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<a href="../T/toy-program.html"><i class="glossterm">toy program</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="no-op.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="non-optimal-solution.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">no-op </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> non-optimal solution</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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