Small matter of programming: Difference between revisions

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:''A piece of program code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its intellectual complexity''.

:This term is used to refer to a program that could obviously be written but is not worth the trouble. It is 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.
: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://comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf|quote=SMOP|title=''IBM Jargon Dictionary, Tenth Edition''|publisher=[[IBM]]||year=1990|page=53|accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref>