Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage.csd.unsw.oz.au!ccadfa!prolix!dac From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Ok.Somebody Post a 20byte Hello World prg!! Message-ID: <18bd40a0.ARN0184@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 25 Feb 91 11:20:32 GMT References: <91053.081053J56QC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Reply-To: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: More like Mis~, really. Lines: 40 In article , Eric P. Armstrong writes: > J56QC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes: > > >Ok..I would like to see a program That displays "HELLO WORLD" in 20bytes if tha > > is possible.....anyway write it in a language other that assembler(which is th > > best!) Thanks.... > > > > By the way..the fastest and smallest prg's are > > written in assembler! No ifs ands or buts! > 1 123456789012345678 > 1> echo "Hello World" > Hello World > > Nah! 17 bytes! :-) > Nah, 18. ;-) (19 with Ctrl-J) Alias e echo 1 1234567890123 2. Dac > e Hello_World Hello_World 13 bytes. I tried aliasing 'h' to hello and 'w' to world, but that didn't work, of course. :-) The shortest way is just Hello_World all by itself, and the shell responds with 'Unknown command Hello_world' 11 bytes. Not including the ^j at the end. :-) Isn't this silly. Dac --