Hello world!
The old standard for programmers seems somewhat trite when writing a blog post.
It has become a cliché for in programming books and guides that the first program that readers are instructed to write is “Hello World”. This is often as far as many people get because, let’s be honest, learning to code is very hard and not only that, but who has the time to sit down and pour for hours over a computer.
Thankfully many people do and the code that people learn to write goes a long way toward defining what sort of geek they are. Why do I assume they are geeks? See the above paragraph with reference to who has time.
Naturally people that can actually write machine code are the geekiest. Followed by people who really understand the Linux/Unix command line and use emacs and think its great. Then there are the hardcore C programmers, then probably C+, finally the people that write the web. They can even masquerade as cool.
Anyway, in the grand tradition and risking being twee - hello world.
