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Subject: Re: smallest C or C++ open-source program?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:56:42 04/11/02

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On April 11, 2002 at 11:49:47, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 11, 2002 at 00:16:19, pavel wrote:
>
>>On April 11, 2002 at 00:06:13, Oliver Roese wrote:
>>
>>>On April 10, 2002 at 19:30:04, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>>
>>>>I guess this might well be TSCP... which others are fairly small?
>>>>
>>>>Dave
>>>
>>>This is one is small but less useful;
>>>
>>>/*
>>>    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>>    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>>>    (at your option) any later version.
>>>
>>>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>>>    GNU General Public License for more details.
>>>
>>>    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>>    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>>>    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
>>>*/
>>>#include <stdio.h>
>>>
>>>int main(void) {
>>>  printf("Hello World!");
>>>  return 0;
>>>}
>>>
>>>
>>>Have Fun
>>>Oliver
>>
>>
>>I thought he meant chess program.
>>I doubt if this program can play chess ;).
>>
>>Interesting, which one is bigger? The Gnu Public Licence that comes with the
>>program or the program itself?
>>
>>pavs ;)
>
>In addition, I don't know that anyone has the explicit rights to the hello world
>program. I could be wrong of course. Maybe Dennis Ritchie? Or were hello world
>programs around before The C Programming Language was first published?
>
>Russell



Some guy had previously published a "Goodbye World" program, but he died by his
own hand very shortly thereafter and thus will not be pursuing any claims.



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