noddy

	This is the JargonFile ^(V4.00) entry for noddy - Next: node, Prev: no-op
:noddy: /nodee/ /adj./ [UK: from the childrens 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 isnt worth using. "This editors 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. "Ill 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.
* (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain)