h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: 'Hello World!' - Programming Tradition - A30572859
Author: echomikeromeo - I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked... - U929375

Short but to-the-point, I think.

I'm unhappy with how the formatting turned out on the examples, using the tag. If anyone has thoughts on that, they would be appreciated.

Traveller in Time on his head
"I think that is one of the preset conditions using GuideML





or using   to give the right indentions

Formal language should be displayed using the pre formatted style, you do not have much choise. There are many ways to change the appearance but not any is approved GuideML. . . "

I was gonna suggest you include the GuideML version until I saw it at the end Good one. Never knew about this, but then again, I'm not smart enough to be a

TiT, is accepted GuideML? I wasn't sure, but I know is. I'll check on that and if it is I'll change it.

And thanks, Jo(r)dan.

Traveller in Time playing with GuideML
"The approved GuideML is , is the HTML version. "

I did look at the approved GML page and see that is acceptable in the EG (in addition to the fact that there are a few precedents in programming entries, like the UNIX command line one), so I've gone ahead and changed it. I think that looks much better.

HELLO WORLD!

*giggles inanely*

A fellow programmer... next to my other favourite introductory computer programming example "What is the Answer to Life the Universe and Everything?" - 42

I always love trying that one out on new students Inputs and Outputs - simple stuff but it amuses me

Short and sweet - nice entry.

Am I the only person who cant get to the links - I am denied access to : http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/btut.html and to http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/resources/knr/ although that doesn't seem particularly surprising looking at them

I get 'canot find server' for the first, and error 403 for the second of those links, so you're not alone.

No mention of FORTRAN? (it's okay really, if you start including more then people will come in with their favourites - there are enough there already...)

Nice entry - just those two links that don't work as far as I can see.

Sorry about those broken links - they were definitely working when I wrote the entry. I just removed them.

I could include any number of examples of 'Hello world!'s, but then the entry would just be a list and not informative for its own sake. I tried to stick to examples from languages that are historically very important (like BASIC) or are still in active use today.

Yep, be careful there. I was going to pop in with an ASP.NET sample. Hey, if you've got php, why not ASP?

Otherwise, a nice entry. Short and informative - though I hadn't heard any geeky jokes about it. Are there any samples, or is it something that just comes up?

I tried to think of times I've heard "Hello world" joked about, but I couldn't think of any specific examples (though there's probably something at http://xkcd.com ). I suppose it's just a standard subject of reference - there was this one time in math class last year when we all decided to do "Hello world" on our calculators.

I lost my programmable calculator shortly after my A-Levels, so now i am stuck with just 0.7734 and 55378008

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I remember when there were still people in PR threads who noticed when things got recommended....

*better late than never*

Nice one

We can't all hang out in PR all day you know. Which is a shame. Its the place to be.

*cue 'Hello World!' smiley approximation attempts*










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Hey I noticed you And if it makes you feel any better this is the first thread I've noticed in the last couple of days And I posted in it