Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!s608
From: s608@cs.utexas.edu (Classroom Account)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga
Subject: Re: Short Hello World
Message-ID: <1418@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 04:46:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.213936.22878@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May2.102554.8679@cs.umu.se>
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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In article <1991May2.102554.8679@cs.umu.se> dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist) writes:
>Ok, assembler strikes back with this: (56 codesize, 92 executable)
>
>OpenLib=-408
>Output=-60
>Write=-48
>
>  move.l 4.w,a6
>  lea    dos(pc),a1
>  jsr    OpenLib(a6)
>  move.l d0,a6
>  jsr    Output(a6)
>  move.l d0,d1
>  lea    hello(pc),a0
>  move.l a0,d2
>  moveq  #12,d3
>  jmp    write(a6)
>
>dos:   dc 'dos.library',0
>hello: dc 'Hello World',10

REXX weighs in at 23 bytes.

Here's the code:
----start----
/**/
say"Hello, world"
-----end-----

I wrote and debugged this in about 1 minute.

And, I can run this program on any machine that has REXX (IBM
mainframes, PC Clones, certain incarnations of UNIX, etc) without
modification.  The source code is short, there's no executable to
worry about, and it's incredibly clear what it does.

It just goes to show that you should use the language that is
best suited for the job.

Later,
  Logan
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