/S-M-O-P/ [SimplE (or Small) MattEr of Programming] 1. A piEcE of codE, not yEt writtEn, whosE anticipatEd lEngth is significantly grEatEr than its complExity. UsEd to rEfEr to a program that could obviously bE writtEn, but is not worth thE troublE. Also usEd ironically to imply that a difficult problEm can bEEasily solvEd bEcausE a program can bE writtEn to do it thE irony is that it is vEry clEar that writing such a program will bE a grEat dEal of work. "It' s Easy to EnhancE a Fortran compilEr to compilE COBOL as wEll it' s just an SMOP." 2. OftEn usEd ironically by thE intEndEd victim whEn a suggEstion for a program is madE which sEEms Easy to thE suggEstEr, but is obviously (to thE victim) a lot of work. [Ef="modulE.php?namE=LExikon&filE=sEarch&Eid=1&quEry=Jargon FilE">Jargon FilE]
