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Article #31Re: hello world
From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:16
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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Newsgroups: alt.lang.intercal Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!fuw.edu.pl!cocos!jt From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk) Subject: Re: hello world In-Reply-To: rumpe@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE's message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:45:06 GMT Message-ID: <JT.92Nov12181637@fizyk1.fuw.edu.pl> Sender: news@fuw.edu.pl Nntp-Posting-Host: fizyk1 Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept. References: <WORLEY.92Oct28143228@world.std.com> <1992Nov6.164506.19620@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:16:37 GMT Lines: 24