From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] The first annual "Hello, World" challenge
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:54:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c32b6fa15171cf53295c1d7fdbecb2c2@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10908181026m1d977938k8c678b69878fb001@mail.gmail.com>
> Your goal: hello, world in one line. Language of your choice. Linking
> in a 512 MB library is a violation of the spirit of this contest.
>
> Additional rules:
> - line length is not defined but let's be reasonable
> - if you can fit it in a standard Hollerith card format (72 chars plus
> 8 chars of comment) that's a plus
would troff be cheating? it's a language.
hello, world
if it is, how about in rc
echo hello, world
sed
s/^/hello, world/g
dc
[hello, world]p
awk
BEGIN{print "hello, world"; exit}
acid
print("hello, world");
that's 1/512th of your size limit, if you count all scripts
and all executables.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 17:26 ron minnich
2009-08-18 17:53 ` John Floren
2009-08-18 18:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-08-18 23:18 ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-19 10:32 ` Uriel
2009-08-19 13:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-08-18 17:54 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-08-19 0:25 ` Abhishek Kulkarni
2009-08-19 2:06 ` LiteStar numnums
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