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From: Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>
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Subject: Re: "Small" Program Challenge.
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On 6/13/12 2:29 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Daniel Pitts<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>  writes:
>> Where do I trim the 21 characters?
>
>    You can trim the »args« to »a«.
Ah, yes. That was just habit on my part.

> Possibly, some earlier JDKs allowed
>    omission of the main method, but a recent JDK seems to require it.
>

The JDK doesn't require anything of a class.  java on the other hand 
goes through a specific sequence when asked to "run" a Java program.

My smallest program is still 61 characters long, the example I posted, 
after replacing args with a, is 79.