Nope, not for me…

The functionalities are really great. Categories and password protection is a must-have-functionality for any blogging tool for me. Sorry wordpress, though… you’re just not for me.
Most of the time I prefer practical functionality over WYSIWYG functionality… but when I can’t change the fonts and the spaces get trimmed, like in the code snippets on my previous post (I’m OC – it needs to be Courier New and the spacing should be precise), it annoys the heck out of me. Yes, I know I can edit the HTML, but that’s boring.
I think I can do without categories and password protection for now. I’m fickle minded anyway. Maybe I’ll change my mind later on. Will just use blogger for the meantime.

Hello, World!

I have yet to see a computer science/IT student whose first program is not “Hello, World!”. Usually, the first program a programmer programs (I like the sound of that) is to output “Hello, World!”.

I have long been wondering where the first Hello World program was used. According to wikipedia, this standard was inspired by the sample program in the book “The C Programming Language”, but the first appearance of the phrase was in the book “A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B”.

“… the tradition of using the phrase “Hello world!” as the test message was influenced by an example program in the book The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, published in 1978. The example program from that book prints “hello, world” (i.e., no capital letters, no exclamation sign; those entered the tradition later). The book had inherited the program from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Kernighan —Programming in C: A Tutorial— which shows the first known version of the program:

main( ) {
printf(“Hello, world!”);
}

However, the first known instance of the usage of the words “hello” and “world” together in computer literature is in A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, by Brian Kernighan, 1973. [1]“

There are hundreds of Hello World program examples on the Louisiana Tech ACM Hello World project site and Wikipedia.

The ones I can pull at the top of my head:

Java

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Hello, World!”);
}
}

ABAP

REPORT Z_HELLO.
WRITE ‘Hello, World!’.

C

#include
main() {
printf(“Hello, World!”);
}

Geez… should I learn new languages now?

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where the heck did my posts go???

to think I was contemplating on switching to wordpress….

Grrrrrrrr………..