SMOP

SMOP (plural SMOPs)

1. (software engineering, humorous) Acronym of small/simple matter of programming, a piece of programming work that will require more time or effort than the person requesting it might realise.
   • 2003, Jon Orwant, Games, Diversions & Perl Culture: Best of the Perl Journal:

     Now that we know how to deal with events, the code to cycle through the stock is a SMOP (Simple Matter Of Programming).

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “SMOP”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

• MOPS, MOPs, MSPO, PMOs, POMs, Poms, mops, pMOS, poms