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In software development, Small Matter of Programming (SMOP) or Simple Matter of Programming is a phrase used to ironically indicate that a suggested feature or design change would in fact require a great deal of effort; it often implies that the person proposing the feature underestimates its cost. Such underestimated costs are common during cost estimation, particularly near the beginning of a project.

The Jargon File describes an SMOP as:

1.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.”

2.Often used ironically by the intended victim when a suggestion for a program is made which seems easy to the suggester, but is obviously (to the victim) a lot of work. Compare minor detail.



On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, James T Kirk wrote:

SMOP

On 11/27/2012 9:04 AM, [email protected] wrote:
If I understand correctly from information regarding the Flex 6000; it might be possible that SmartSDR will give the Flex 6000 the ability to decide receive parameters that will raise or lower sensitivity depending on band conditions (automatically). If the band is wide open with a high noise level the Flex 6000 would attenuate the receive sensitivity to bring the unwanted noise level down thus eliminating hearing fatigue. If the
band is not so good just the opposite would happen with raising
sensitivity. Of course this would be within the range of the receive
preamp / attenuate parameters. Would it be possible for the operator to be able to define the noise level parameter(db) as this maybe different for
operator choice? Anyway, I am just pondering the vast possibilities.

73's
Joe
WD5Y


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