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Re: A Modern "Hello World"

From Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: A Modern "Hello World"
Date 2025-12-06 23:40 -0400
Organization Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
Message-ID <87v7ijt0vr.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink)
References <slrn10j5p7q.gqmf.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> <clock-20251205153453@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <slrn10j5sst.gqmf.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>

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Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> writes:

> And so, we now have one or two generations of programmers that have
> learned a "framework" that loads a gigabyte of runtime to do a simple
> task. No wonder we have bloated and buggy programs at junior programmers
> mix and match frameworks.
> 
> Just a couple decades ago, such a program would be written in a few
> lines of Visual Basic, but I don't think that exists any more.

Ronald Reagan is reputed to have said something like, "The most fearsome
words ever heard are, 'We're from the government and we're here to
help you.'"

Updated to today, the most fearsome words are:

    We are continuing to make improvements to this website to serve
    you better.

Interactive web sites that worked flawlessly have been, I assume,
subjected to the attention of (not neccessairily junior) js progammers
tasked with instantiating features that someone thought would be cool,
that some executive demanded or simply something of which the programmer
said to h{im,er}self, "Jeez, that would be better if....Oh, I can do
that!"  And the site stops working unless I upgrade or change my
browser or even, possibly, upgrade ny whole system.

Feh.




> 
> -- 
> Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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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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