Tuesday January 16, 2024
In every computer language, it is important to be able to code a "hello, world!" program, a practice encouraged since at least the time of Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan's The C Programming Language.
And indeed, it is the first exercise in their much revered book. So,
here with only slight modification to how it appeared originally:
#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
printf("hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
The exercises immediately following this detail a chart of some Fahrenheit and Celsius values, demonstrating illustrating the for and while loops, two fundamental statements used to affect changes to the control flow.
The Wikipedia links to them I have provided in this paragraph explain
them better than I could and also provide some code examples of how to
write them in various languages. Just how quickly it calculates all this
is something of a wonder to behold and it reminds you too, that
"computer" and "calculator" used to be job titles/descriptions, rather
than the names of machines. As I write this human and machine
dishwashers peacefully coexist.
O tessa o
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\\/ o\ .
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