Its a computing tradition to have your first program in a new programming language output ‘Hello World’, best not to go against tradition:
puts ‘hello world’
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I’ve really needed to get round to learning a powerful object oriented scripted or interpreted programming language to replace windows batch files (which I currently use) for a while now. As Microsoft seems determined to gut their functionality with each new Windows release and I find myself wanting more functionality and power than batch scripts [...]
There are many different programing languages in existence today (I’m going to write about the languages I am familiar with) and I like to visualise their relationships as layers of a cake. There are two main ways to categorise programming languages: as having high or low levels of abstraction and as either compiled or interpreted [...]
Knowing what is required to complete a programming task can be a black art, unless some thought is used. This can be observed by how frequently engineers complete 90% of a task to only then spend a further significant period of time finishing the last elusive 10% of the task. In the worst cases that [...]
It would seem that as a profession Software Engineers when left to their own devices will attempt to make a perfect solution to a problem, rather than accepting a working solution. This may sound innocent enough as being 75% perfect (with a working solution) is usually not too painful in time and effort to achieve, [...]