Perl Christmas Quiz

[Paul Makepeace]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
<philippe.bruhat at free.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:33:09PM +0100, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
>> On 2008-12-16 Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
>> > Cheap joke I know, but isn't the canonical example of this simply to
>> > write it in Java?
>> >
>> > What does the most golfed down Java implementation look like?
>>
>> class A{public static void main(String[]a){System.out.println("Hello World");}}
>                                                                              ^
> Can't we even delete a single character from that big string? Maybe this one? ¦

; is a statement terminator, not a separator. Java inherits from C, not DWIM :-)

>
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>  Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
>
>  The learned man makes a mistake but once... but the truly stupid keep
>  practicing until they get it right.
>                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #75 (Epic))
>