I'm not a programmer, but I chat with a number of and along the way absorbed some geeky goodness. Only for giggles,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007, have a look at “The Evolution of a Programmer.” (Desire I could take credit for composing this code, however the honor belongs to another.) High School/Jr.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
(cons 'Hello (list 'World)))) New professional #include <stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
char *message[] = "Hello ", "World";
int i; for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
printf("%s", message[i]);
printf("\n");
} Experienced Hacker #include <stdio.h>
#define S "Hello, World\n"
main()exit(printf(S) == strlen(S) ? 0 : 1); Seasoned Hacker % cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c
% a.out Guru Hacker % cat
Hello, world.
^D New Manager 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END Middle Manager mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello,
Microsoft Office Home And Business 2010,
world."?
I need it by tomorrow.
^D Senior Manager % zmail jim
I need a "Hello,
Office 2007 Enterprise, world." program by this afternoon. Chief Executive % letter
letter: Command not found.
% mail
To: ^X ^F ^C
% help mail
help: Command not found.
% damn,
Windows 7 Professional Key!
,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010!: Event unrecognized
% logout -Jim