/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 noddYawk 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]
