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0 pointsdonatj4y ago0 comments

Hello World in PHP is literally

    Hello World

I know no other language that elegant.

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rei_ayanami4y ago

If programing stopped there we wouldn't have an argument, its when you design high performant code that is maintained for over 10 years etc.

mejutoco4y ago

From the top of my head, Javascript and Common Lisp will also work with "Hello World" (with quotes).

donatjOP4y ago

I can’t speak for Lisp, but JavaScript isn’t going to write that to standard out, it would just be a statement that didn’t do anything.

You would need something like

    import { stdout } from 'process';
    
    stdout.write("Hello World");

mejutoco4y ago

Fair enough. On the client (just opening dev tools) it would return the string, but as you say, it depends on what we count as valid (repl, server-side, client). Probably the closest would be

    console.log("Hello World")

chippiewill4y ago

Being able to do a trivial hello world doesn't make a language elegant.

richrichardsson4y ago

The easiest Quine imaginable!

Karellen4y ago

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rei_ayanami4y ago

If programing stopped there we wouldn't have an argument, its when you design high performant code that is maintained for over 10 years etc.

mejutoco4y ago

From the top of my head, Javascript and Common Lisp will also work with "Hello World" (with quotes).

donatjOP4y ago

I can’t speak for Lisp, but JavaScript isn’t going to write that to standard out, it would just be a statement that didn’t do anything.

You would need something like

    import { stdout } from 'process';
    
    stdout.write("Hello World");

mejutoco4y ago

Fair enough. On the client (just opening dev tools) it would return the string, but as you say, it depends on what we count as valid (repl, server-side, client). Probably the closest would be

    console.log("Hello World")

chippiewill4y ago

Being able to do a trivial hello world doesn't make a language elegant.

richrichardsson4y ago

The easiest Quine imaginable!

Karellen4y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse