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Alternative phrases such as '''simple matter of software''' or '''small matter of software''', are occasionally used in the same manner. However, it is also used without irony<ref>{{cite journal |title= ONDI – The ON-line Device Interface |journal= Circuit Cellar INK The computer Applications Journal |author= John Dybowski |issue= 18 |date= January 1991 |page= 16 |url= http://www.pestingers.net/pdfs/other-computers/circuit-cellar/1990/circuit-cellar-018.pdf |quote= This turns out to be an almost trivial exercise, mainly because the computer is used to compute and the controller to control. Just a simple matter of software. }}</ref> to indicate that straightforward [[Software engineering|software development]] is all that is required to resolve some issue. This usage is often invoked when the speaker wants to contrast the implied ease of software changes with the suggested greater difficulty of making a hardware change or a change to an [[Standardization|industry standard]]. This non-ironic usage is more often invoked by [[senior management]] and [[Hardware architect|hardware engineers]], than it is by software engineers.{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}
The term was also explored and expanded upon by [[Bonnie Nardi]] in her 1993 book ''A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing''.<ref>{{cite book
==See also==
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==References==
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▲* {{cite book|last=Nardi |first=Bonnie A. |title=A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |year=1993 |isbn=9780262140539 |oclc=874321540 |authorlink=Bonnie Nardi}}
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