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[aromulus]

hello everybody

Very original intro......

Welcome home.

[joebloggs]

Very original intro......

Welcome home.

could have been worse, could have said

"HELLO WORLD"

those into puter will know why

[jimeve]

could have been worse, could have said

"HELLO WORLD"

those into puter will know why

[joebloggs]

buy any computer programming book, one of the first if not the first program you will learn to write, will display 'hello world' on your monitor

[jimeve]

buy any computer programming book, one of the first if not the first program you will learn to write, will display 'hello world' on your monitor

oh, right.

[PeterB]

could have been worse, could have said

"HELLO WORLD"

those into puter will know why

Funny you should mention that ... one of our 'helpers' is doing an IT course at a local college. I showed her 'Hello World' in Java earlier today.

[joebloggs]

Funny you should mention that ... one of our 'helpers' is doing an IT course at a local college. I showed her 'Hello World' in Java earlier today.

java object programming is slightly confusing for someone who started out using linear languages like cobol and pascal

look at this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol

An example of the "Hello, world" program in COBOL:

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MAIN.
DISPLAY 'Hello, world.'.
STOP RUN.

NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mich]

welcome

[PeterB]

java object programming is slightly confusing for someone who started out using linear languages like cobol and pascal

Me too .. I started out programming in FORTRAN 4 in 1970, punching cards by manual hand punch.

Since than I've written in ALGOL, COBOL, DIBOL, PASCAL, BASIC, C, various Assemblers and, even FORTH. I did once try to get to grips with PROLOG, but didn't get very far. However, I have suggested that Ai-Ai and I should try working together on learning JAVA - we'll see how that goes.