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* to reassert by irony one's awareness of the danger of underestimating required effort.
The [[Jargon File]] describes a SMOP<ref>[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/SMOP.html Simple Matter of Programming]
:#A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity. Used to refer to a program that could obviously be written, but is not worth the trouble. Also used ironically to imply that a difficult problem can be easily solved because a program can be written to do it; the irony is that it is very clear that writing such a program will be a great deal of work. “It's easy to enhance a FORTRAN compiler to compile COBOL as well; it's just a SMOP.”
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