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Hello world in 2 bytes

Monday, August 15, 2005 ★ 18:32 ★ Category Programming

A spectacular break-through in computer science! The famous hello world program in just two bytes:

$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir hello
$ cd hello
$ echo -n "ls" > 'Hello, world!'
$ chmod +x 'Hello, world!'

Now execute this wonderful piece of programming:

$ ./'Hello, world!'
Hello, world!