"If it takes more than 5 minutes to create a simple "hello world" app, your hot tech is dead to me." [600x424 - 69KB]

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if it gives enough content to justify the 2 hours i would say it is worth it, the majority just simply isnt worth it though. i would say a 2hr hello world while being useful and not marketing BS is like a unicorn approaching a male

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is like a unicorn approaching a male

What about gay unicorns?

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god purged them before they were born

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Point him to San Fran, the Keys, and Provincetown....

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"If it takes more than 5 minutes to create a simple "hello world" app, your hot tech is dead to me."

It's a sentiment I share and it's mostly true when it comes to personal use

For professional use, you have a couple of other parameters coming into play, it's a different deal

The "more than 5 minutes" part can be a "barrier to entry" for most people, and it can turn out to be an hedge on the market, since you won't have that many people capable to handle the said tech... Scarcity...

Now that scarcity, only has value if the said tech is also widely used in the professional/business world

If yes, then it can be worth the hassle to learn it, precisely because there's a massive demand AND a (relative) shortage of people capable to provide/handle it

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Hello world is where the BASIC language shines.

10 ?"Hello world"

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While I agree in some part, most of those examples aren't actually programs. Issuing a statement to print a string at the prompt is not the same thing as a program. BASIC allows you to add the program line number to the print statement and now it is a fully runnable, re-runnable and re-entrant program. How would you re-run the Lisp, shell, AWK, Python, Ruby or Java "Hello world" script? You would have to retype it or make us of line recall in the shell. Same goes with editing the program. Only the C example qualifies as a program, but of course it has to include the main loop in order to do that whereas BASIC only needed the line number and print statement to be a fully qualified program.

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Some of your examples are incorrect.

For example, JAVA

System.out.println("hello world")

Nice try dude. You cannot simply compile and run that statement.

You need

public static void main(string[] args) { System.out.println("hello world") }

Which is quite a bit more verbose than 10 ?"Hello world"

Plus, the Lisp example isn't technically an application. Nor a routine of any kind. It's simply a string.

Edit: inb4 "nitpicking". Nuance is crucial to logic, mathematics.

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