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Re: A Modern "Hello World"

From David Bridgham <dab@froghouse.org>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: A Modern "Hello World"
Date 2025-12-05 14:55 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <86zf7wu2js.fsf@malabar.froghouse.org> (permalink)
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Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> writes:

> The traditional "Hello World" program is sometimes a nice example line
> of code to illustrate the flavor/style of a programming language,

My take on "Hello World" was that it had nothing to do with illustrating
the flavor/style of a language.  Its purpose was to see that you could
operate the development chain.  That is that you could edit a program,
compile it, and then run the resulting output.  "Hello world" is about
the simplest program that shows that.  In the embedded world, blinky
serves the same purpose.

Once that was in place, then you could move on learning the
language and libraries and whatever else was on the syllabus.

Dave

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A Modern "Hello World" Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-12-05 13:58 +0000
  Re: A Modern "Hello World" ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-05 14:36 +0000
    Re: A Modern "Hello World" Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-12-05 15:00 +0000
      Re: A Modern "Hello World" ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-05 15:14 +0000
      Re: A Modern "Hello World" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 08:08 -0800
        Re: A Modern "Hello World" ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-05 16:20 +0000
          Re: A Modern "Hello World" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 09:10 -0800
            Re: A Modern "Hello World" ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-05 17:26 +0000
              Re: A Modern "Hello World" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 09:37 -0800
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-14 20:12 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-14 20:31 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-12-16 12:15 -0500
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-16 09:21 -0800
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-15 08:21 -0800
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-15 22:45 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-15 14:53 -0800
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-15 23:06 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 07:49 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2025-12-16 15:05 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 19:46 +0000
              Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-05 19:10 +0000
            Re: A Modern "Hello World" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-12-05 18:49 +0000
              Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-05 22:51 +0000
          Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-05 19:09 +0000
        Re: A Modern "Hello World" Anthk NM <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-12-21 21:38 +0000
          Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-22 06:53 +0000
            Re: A Modern "Hello World" Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-22 17:33 +0000
              Re: A Modern "Hello World" Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-22 13:52 -0700
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 21:12 +0000
                Re: A Modern "Hello World" Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-23 11:09 +0000
            Re: A Modern "Hello World" Anthk NM <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-12-30 18:03 +0000
      Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-05 19:04 +0000
        Re: A Modern "Hello World" Anthk NM <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-12-21 21:38 +0000
      Re: A Modern "Hello World" Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-12-06 23:40 -0400
        Re: A Modern "Hello World" "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-07 10:55 +0000
          Re: A Modern "Hello World" Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-07 23:27 +0000
            Re: A Modern "Hello World" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 01:38 +0000
      Re: A Modern "Hello World" Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-14 20:14 +0000
  Re: A Modern "Hello World" David Bridgham <dab@froghouse.org> - 2025-12-05 14:55 -0500
  Re: A Modern "Hello World" Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-12-06 12:02 +0000
  Re: A Modern "Hello World" Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-14 02:09 +0000
  Re: A Modern "Hello World" Anthk NM <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-12-21 21:38 +0000

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