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The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

January 31st, 2008 by Sulakshan | No Comments »

You must have heard about Issac Asimov. He was one of the best known science fiction writers in the world.

He is the person who gave us the Three Laws of Robotics.

Asimov thought that The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever.

Do take out a few minutes and read this. If you have even a little bit inclination towards science, you will love this.

Links:
- http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
OR
- http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

PS: Do not read the end first, if you really want to enjoy this.

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The History of “Hello World”

January 31st, 2008 by Vineet | No Comments »

Almost all of you who have studied even a little bit of programming must identify these words “hello world”. I am pretty sure the first program you read printed these words on the screen.

The first known instance of the usage of the words “hello” and “world” together in computer literature occurred earlier, in Kernighan’s 1972 Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, with the following code:


main( ) {
extrn a, b, c;
putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
}
a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';

Then it was used as the first program in the famous book “The C programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie.
The code is below :

main() {
printf("hello, world\n");
}

For a detailed information on Hello World programs check out this link on wikipedia

It’s not necessary to have a big thing to make history !!!

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