As a preliminary exercise to jog my memory, here is the obligatory “Hello, world!” program in a variety of languages. On the one hand, the programs do nothing except output a string, and so don’t illustrate very much about the respective languages. On the other hand, the simplicity of the task does illustrate the difference between languages that allow you to begin coding right away versus those that require a considerable amount of setting up (importing libraries, declaring classes, etc.) before you even have a functioning program… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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I had actually posted this to my Facebook about two weeks ago. At the time, I wrote:
I recently threw out several boxes of old computer programming software and books, because they were obsolete, and I didn’t know anyone who wanted them. For nostalgia’s sake, I took photos of the stuff I threw out. It’s such a pity that commercial software and the associated books become outdated so quickly.
I’m reposting the photos here… » [Expand post] [Permalink]