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From: Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: "Small" Program Challenge.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:29:32 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-06-13, Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> 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.

How much are you permitted to offload to the launcher?

Trivial example of offloading:

class A{public static void main(String[] a){System.out.print(a[0]);}}
(69 chars)

with launch instructions:

run like this (bash command line example shown, other launch
environments will have other ways of expressing the newline)

$ java A "Hello World
> "
$ 


And how much can you offload to a hypothetical "library" function that
just happens to do exactly what you want?

class B{public static void main(String[] a){L.f();}}
(52 chars)

Cheers,

Bent.
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