:hello, world: interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the
C/UNIX universe. 2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this
message. Traditionally, the first program a C coder is supposed to
write in a new environment is one that just prints "hello, world"
to standard output (and indeed it is the first example program
in {K&R}). Environments that generate an unreasonably large
executable for this trivial test or which require a {hairy}
compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered to
{lose} (see {X}). 3. Greeting uttered by a hacker making an
entrance or requesting information from anyone present. "Hello,
world! Is the {VAX} back up yet?"
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
C/UNIX universe. 2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this
message. Traditionally, the first program a C coder is supposed to
write in a new environment is one that just prints "hello, world"
to standard output (and indeed it is the first example program
in {K&R}). Environments that generate an unreasonably large
executable for this trivial test or which require a {hairy}
compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered to
{lose} (see {X}). 3. Greeting uttered by a hacker making an
entrance or requesting information from anyone present. "Hello,
world! Is the {VAX} back up yet?"
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- hello world interj.
1. The canonical minimal test message
in the C/Unix universe.
2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message... - noddy: /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj.
1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point.... - hello, sailor!: interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of
{hello,
world}; seems to have originated at SAIL, later ... - noddy /nod'ee/ adj.
[UK: from the children's books]
1.
Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy... - control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the
interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a
running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers... - cascade: n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output
produced by a compiler with poor error recovery.
Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as... - MFTL /M-F-T-L/
[abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language']
1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design... - cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt.
1.
[techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or... - hello sailor! interj.
Occasional West Coast equivalent
of hello world;
seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated...
From the same category:
- Old soldiers never die.
Young ones do... - console:: n. 1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}.
In times past, this was a privileged location that... - You seem like a decent fellow, I hate to kill you.
*YOU* seem like a decent fellow,
I hate to die... - No slogans, simple taglines....
PLANET... - C++ is the best example of second-system effect since
OS/360...
