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This situation is why there is "hello world"; that program seems trivial but actually has important implications; for instance, that your environment works, that you know how to feed programs to the compiler, that you can actually run the output.

I never took "hello world" seriously until I started doing embedded systems work; it's now an extraordinarily important tool for me (I work an anomalously weird number of different environments).

parent tptacek 13 years ago

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