[SAGE] tmtowtdi [was: Evil Interview Questions]

[David Alban <extasia@extasia.org>]

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co = Cat Okita
dh = Doug Hughes
pb = Philip Brown

co> A recently nicely evil question that I ran into - program 'hello world'
co> in three languages[0].

dh> does sh, ksh and csh count? ;)
dh> 

pb> only if you can do it in three different ways in those languages :-)

pb> #!/bin/csh
pb> echo "hello world"
pb> 
pb> #!/bin/ksh
pb> print "hello world"
pb> 
pb> #!/bin/sh
pb> cat <<EOF
pb> hello world
pb> EOF

#!/bin/bash
printf "%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\n"  h  e  l  l  o  \    w  o  r  l  d

#!/bin/zsh
set hello world
echo $*

#!/bin/ash
are () { echo -n e ; } ; droids () { echo -n o ; } ; _for () { echo ld ; }
looking () { echo -n wor ; } ; not () { echo -n l ; } ;
the () { echo -n l ; } ; these () { echo -n h ; } ; you_re () { echo -n \ ; };
  :     :    :    :     :       :        :       :
these; are; not; the; droids; you_re; looking; _for
  :     :    :    :     :       :        :       :

#!/bin/tcsh
set tmp=` mktemp -d XXXXXX ` && cd $tmp
touch world
touch hello
ls

# sash under linux, not irix :-)
$ sash -c 'it="for i in hello\\  world; do echo -n \$i; done; echo"; eval $it'

#!/bin/sh
A=o;E=l;S=d;V=r;W=w;b=h;h=o;i=e;n=l;s=l;
echo $b$i$n$s$h $W$A$V$E$S

#!/bin/sh
mknod pee p && echo hello world > pee &
cat pee

#!/bin/sh
( cp /dev/null nohup.out; nohup echo hello world & cat nohup.out ) \
| fgrep -v appending

$ cat /proc/hello

What?  Your distribution didn't come with /proc/hello ?!  :-D

David
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