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> This ability to get Hello World done in 5 minutes... This has existed since at least 1992 (Visual C++) and probably before that (Borland Pascal?).

• lcuff 3y ago
  Well, I'm thinking more of a web site Hello World than a C++ Hello World. The original point of Hello World (per Kernighan and Ritchie) was to ensure that all the tools were installed (the compiler itself wasn't a given) and in your path and configured correctly. So yeah, I was say even in 1988 (when I started programming in C) there's a way in which Hello.c was 5 minutes. But when I started with Rails (years later), it was more like 1/2 a day, and the Hello World notion had expanded in scope by quite a bit. I didn't spell out the _kind_ of Hello World I had in mind. My bad.
  • riceart 3y ago
    Web hello world in rails is literally a single command and seconds.
    • lcuff 3y ago
      After you read far enough in the book or tutorial to find that command.