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From: beust@taloa.unice.fr (Cedric Beust)
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Subject: Re: Short Hello World
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Date: 6 May 91 10:06:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.213936.22878@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May2.102554.8679@cs.umu.se> <1418@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu>
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In article <1418@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu>, s608@cs.utexas.edu (Classroom Account) writes:

: Here's the code:
: ----start----
: /**/
: say"Hello, world"
: -----end-----
: 
: I wrote and debugged this in about 1 minute.

  Fine, but a 'echo "Hello world"' would work on even more different
platforms, and would be shorter. Nothing prevents you from aliasing
the 'execute world' to the letter a and get the wonderful "Hello World"
by a mere a<RET>.

  :-)

  Actually, I agree with you. Use the languages for the purpose they're
meant to.

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