It's been two weeks since I wrote a puzzle out here – so I end up typing the simplest program I could think of in Java.
class X{
public static void main(String[] a){
System.out.print("Hello World");
}
}
That's the smallest program that I could in java that prints hello world (72 characters excluding all the white spaces). Hope you folks noticed the clever use of variable names and print instead of println.
Well here is the really simple challenge. Write some code that does exactly what the above code does – just use less number of characters. Remember the code has got to compile cleanly and run cleanly and produce the same output as the snippet above. Easy!
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class X{
ReplyDeletepublic static void main(String[] a){
System.out.print(a[0]);
}
}
Run the program as given below
java X "Hello World"
62 characters:
ReplyDeleteclass X {
static {
System.out.print("Hello World");
System.exit(0);
}
}
class X{
ReplyDeletepublic static void main(String[] a){
System.out.print(a[0]);
}
}
$ javac X.java
$ java X "Hello World"
class X{
ReplyDeletepublic static void main(String[] a)
{
System.out.print(a[0]);
}
}
pass "Hello world" as argument