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noddy


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Noddy  \Nod"dy\,  n.;  pl  {Noddies}.  [Prob.  fr  nod  to  incline  the 
  head,  either  as  in  assent,  or  from  drowsiness.] 
  1.  A  simpleton;  a  fool.  --L'Estrange. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  Any  tern  of  the  genus  {Anous},  as  {A.  stolidus}. 
  b  The  arctic  fulmar  ({Fulmarus  glacialis}).  Sometimes 
  also  applied  to  other  sea  birds. 
 
  3.  An  old  game  at  cards.  --Halliwell. 
 
  4.  A  small  two-wheeled  one-horse  vehicle. 
 
  5.  An  inverted  pendulum  consisting  of  a  short  vertical  flat 
  spring  which  supports  a  rod  having  a  bob  at  the  top  -- 
  used  for  detecting  and  measuring  slight  horizontal 
  vibrations  of  a  body  to  which  it  is  attached. 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  noddy  /nod'ee/  adj  [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}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  noddy 
 
  /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. 
 
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