The Evolution of a Programmer 215

The Evolution of a Programmer

[Wed love to assign credit for this, but its been whizzing around Cyberspace for so long that the task would probably be impossible. Eds.]

High school/Junior high

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END

First year in college

program Hello(input, output); begin writeln ('Hello world'); end.

Senior year in college

(defun hello () (print (list 'HELLO 'WORLD)))

New professional
#include <stdio.h> main (argc,argv) int argc; char **argv; { printf ("Hello World!\n"); }

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Seasoned pro
#include <stream.h> const int MAXLEN = 80; class outstring; class outstring { private: int size; char str[MAXLEN]; public: outstring() { size=0; } ~outstring() {size=0;} void print(); void assign(char *chrs); }; void outstring::print() { int i; for (i=0 ; i< size ; i++) cout << str[i]; cout << "\n"; } void outstring::assign(char *chrs) { int i; for (i=0; chrs[i] != '\0';i++) str[i] = chrs[i]; size=i; } main (int argc, char **argv) { outstring string; string.assign("Hello World!"); string.print(); }

Manager
George, I need a program to output the string Hello World!