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Re: hello world

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:16
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>>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:45:06 GMT, rumpe@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Rumpe) said:
Bernhard> Originator: rumpe@sunbroy7.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Bernhard> In the ANSI/CCITT norm declaration centers some
Bernhard> interesting new features came up to discussion.
Bernhard> One favourite idea is the new intercal command:
Bernhard>    write_hello_world
Bernhard> In order to ease the newusers entrance in intercal,
Bernhard> this command does the usual:
Bernhard>   1 starts, 
Bernhard>   2 tries to write "hello world" in greek-letters on every 
Bernhard>      available screen in the house (or should it be street/town?) 

On any available screen in network: cannot write on screen of TV set
if it is not connected to computer or not powered on...

But the command name is too long, better use write_hello or writehello
or even writehelo. More, need a change in user politeness check made
by compiler: actually compiler requires >1/5 and <1/3 of all statements
to contain keyword PLEASE. I suggest: count of PLEASE should be > 1/5
of statement count and count_of_PLEASE-1 should be < 1/3, this makes
possibility to write single-line program: 0001 PLEASE WRITEHELO
which otherwise would be rejected by compiler (programmer too polite),
note writing: 0001 DO WRITEHELO is rejected (insufficiently polite).
Hope the problem will be fixed in next release...
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Subject: Re: hello world
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