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Original message From: Jeremy Nicoll
Date: 4/12/20 12:47 PM (GMT-08:00) To:
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12 Apr 2020, at 19:42, Charles Mills wrote:&
Better yet Bob, why would you want too
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 5:31 PM Bob Bridges wrote:
> I started to skip this one without reading carefully, but then the term
> caught my eye. "Quine"...quine...Doggone, I'm sure I've heard of it. In
> fact, I'm morally certain Douglas Hofstadter talked
I started to skip this one without reading carefully, but then the term caught
my eye. "Quine"...quine...Doggone, I'm sure I've heard of it. In fact, I'm
morally certain Douglas Hofstadter talked about them, right? Which means they
must be some kind of paradox or self-referential joke.
On 2020-04-12 14:18, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:23:47 +, Robert Prins wrote:
On 2020-04-11 06:25, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-04-11 8:42 AM, Dale R. Smith wrote:
After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!:-)>
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, at 19:42, Charles Mills wrote:
> I suppose one could invent a language that had a verb, BIF or library
> call Say100Bottles() that would thereby solve the problem in one line
> of code.
You can do it in less. You invent a language whose runtime initialisation
code does
: Sunday, April 12, 2020 7:19 AM
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I haven't the stamina to check: What's the shortest of the 1500
examples, with/without correct grammatical plurals?
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:23:47 +, Robert Prins wrote:
>On 2020-04-11 06:25, David Crayford wrote:
>> On 2020-04-11 8:42 AM, Dale R. Smith wrote:
>>> After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!:-)>
>>>
>>> http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/
>>>
>>> After a few real beers,
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Phrase the response as "You will turn ### years old this year."
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 1:21 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
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> Yes, but then the answer wouldn't be a year off.
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> That would take it to another level of complexity
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> (Parsing
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That would take it to another level of complexity
(Parsing day, month, year), instead of just year
It's already complex enough for some languages (i.e. assembler) for
converting the string input to n
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> Mike Stramba [mikestra...@gmail.com]
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>> After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!
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> After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!
After "Hello World" (output only ...obv), I like an "age" program :
/* rexx */
say 'What is your name ?'
> After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!
After "Hello World" (output only ...obv), I like an "age" program :
/* rexx */
say 'What is your name ?'
pull name
say 'What is your age ?'
pull age
yb = 2020 - age
say 'You were born in the year ' yb
Mike
I remember back in the '80s, before Windows, when everyone had a menu system
such as Maestro on their DOS PCs, I reprogrammed a coworker's menu system.
Whenever he brought up Harvard Graphics, it modified the menu option for Word.
When he ran the Word option, it displayed a quick "Roberto is
Talking of "Hello, world!", I remember working in ISPF/TSO, when a
line-mode message filled the screen. A text rendering of a ghost and "Nasty
Wetmonster* phantom strikes again!". Everyone in the office got it. I
looked up the TPUT macro and found the USERIDL= parameter.
Some clown was scanning
When I was very young, my sister and I made up a rule: If knowing one word of
a language meant we could speak that language, how many languages could we
speak? I knew "da" and "nyet" from Rocky and Bullwinkle, so I could speak
Russian. "Sayonara", ok, that's Japanese. And so on.
In the
On 2020-04-11 06:25, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-04-11 8:42 AM, Dale R. Smith wrote:
After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!:-)>
http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/
After a few real beers, the virtual beers would be a lot harder! Ha Ha
haha, some creative soul
On 2020-04-11 8:42 AM, Dale R. Smith wrote:
After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of Beer"!:-)>
http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/
After a few real beers, the virtual beers would be a lot harder! Ha Ha
haha, some creative soul has even done JCL using utilities
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:43:00 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>Besides Bob's rationale, getting HelloWorld to compile & run also ensures
>that the infrastructure & environment you need is present and working.
>
>sas
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>On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:11 PM Bob Bridges wrote:
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>> Just my opinion, but if
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Yep, a IVP
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:43 PM Steve Smith wrote:
> Besides Bob's rationale, getting HelloWorld to compile & run also ensures
> that the infrastructure & environment you need is present and working.
>
> sas
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:11 PM Bob Bridges
> wrote:
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> > Just my
Besides Bob's rationale, getting HelloWorld to compile & run also ensures
that the infrastructure & environment you need is present and working.
sas
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:11 PM Bob Bridges wrote:
> Just my opinion, but if you mean the hello-world program is maximally
> trivial, fine. But
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