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<groan> Hello World tells you nearly nothing about a programming language. (Unless, of course, it's written in Java, in which case it's a painstaking tour of
by PDoyle 10y ago
<groan> Hello World tells you nearly nothing about a programming language.
(Unless, of course, it's written in Java, in which case it's a painstaking tour of the entire programming language, requiring you to learn the concepts behind "class", "public", "static", "void", "main", and arrays, despite never actually using any of those things.)
- scrollaway 10y agoThis post doesn't claim to teach you about programming language. It actually contains exactly what it says on the tin: Hello World in every programming language. When you pick up a dictionary, do you groan about it teaching you nearly nothing about human languages?
- trymas 10y agoThis IMHO is better https://learnxinyminutes.com/[0] https://learnxinyminutes.com/[0] if you want to see how the language looks like, because indeed "hello world" usually tells absolutely nothing. [0] https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs
- akio 10y agoI like http://rosettacode.org http://rosettacode.org
- Robadob 10y agoJava 9 will have 'interactive shell' functionality, 1:40 of the video (on the linked page) they show hello world. https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/jshell_and_relp_in_java https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/jshell_and_relp_in_java
- skoczymroczny 10y agoNot really, when learning the language, most people will see it just as "stuff you do to make a main function". It's just as you don't have to look inside stdio.h to be able to #include it for a hello world program.