[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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {Commonwealth Hackish}{mickey mouse program}{proglet}{terminal junkie}{toy program}]