If it is like many other such projects, just to say they did it. Why climb Everest? Why play a video game on the hardest setting? Why learn to write Hello Worl

If it is like many other such projects, just to say they did it. Why climb Everest? Why play a video game on the hardest setting? Why learn to write Hello World in the top 100 programming languages? I can't say I wrote a spreadsheet in 220b. They can. Maybe the question is, "Why not?" It is Hacker News, after all.