The worst possible Hello World
a recurring theme in many corporate-programming horror stories is the myth that the more code (that is, lines of code) that you write, the more productive you are. in the interest of debunking this myth, and also attacking bad code in general, I present to you: the Worst Possible Hello World! like any Hello World, all it does is print ‘Hello World!’. but it does so in the most convoluted way I can imagine.
let me know if you can come up with a worse one. ☺
August 27th, 2006 at 05:49:46
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