Small matter of programming: Difference between revisions

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Example: "It's easy to change a FORTRAN compiler to compile COBOL as well; it's just a small matter of programming."}}

The IBM Jargon Dictionary defines SMOP as:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comlayhavantcivicsociety.netuk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ibmjarg.pdf|quote=SMOP|title=''IBM Jargon Dictionary, Tenth Edition''|publisher=[[IBM]]|year=1990|page=53|access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref>

{{quote|'''SMOP''' (''smop'') ''n.'' Something quite possible, but requiring unavailable resources to achieve. "Why isn't that function available in the program?" − "It's just a Simple Matter Of Programming". (The implication being that, given a few person-centuries, all things are possible.) Also '''SMOUP''' (''smoop''), a Simple Matter Of Micro-Programming (if handwritten, using a Greek [[Mu_(letter)|mu]]). See also ''how hard would it be.''}}