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On 6/13/2012 1:52 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 6/13/12 1:45 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
>> I saw a challenge Roedy posted on cljh, and I thought I might have a
>> slightly more interesting one.
>>
>> Write a Java program which outputs "Hello World" followed by a new line
>> (and nothing else).
>>
>> Now, do it using as few characters in the .java source code as possible.
>>
>> I've got mine down to 61 characters. See if you can match that.
>
> Hint, the following is 82 characters, if you remove line wrapping. Where
> do I trim the 21 characters?
>
> "class M{public static void main(String[]args){System.out.println("Hello
> World");}}"


This is a good one, although the options for really trimming things down 
in surprising ways is absent in Java.

Another good one is to write a Java program that prints its own source 
text.  No fair using an external file, of course.