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Subject: Re: To hell with the program spec - I know what's best
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:32:47 -0500
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"Ant" wrote:

> "Richard Heathfield" wrote:
> 
>> Just now, I stumbled across a rather curious example of spec violation
> 
>> Program to Display "Hello, World!"
> 
>> printf("C Programming");
> 
> I am so used to the idea of "hello world" being a metaphor for the
> first program written in a language you are learning which displays
> something, that on first read of your post I couldn't see the
> problem. Despite the output being different from what was stated I
> thought "so, it's a hello-world program". I expect the author had a
> similar brain-fart.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.