/nod' ee/ [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. 3. A Simple (hence the name) language to handle text and interaction on the Memotech home computer. HaS died with the machine. [Jargon File]

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