The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs

Re:The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 fami... by jaak on Saturday September 15, 2018 @01:58AM (#17993189)

LOL this reminds of old flame wars on Usenet about the smallest possible "Hello World!".

Someone would always eventually post "echo Hello World!" and the endless arguments would ensue about whether or not that was actually a program.

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Re:The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 fami... by rwmj on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:27AM (#17993261)

Why echo it?

    $ cat /tmp/hello 
    hello\ world
    $ /tmp/hello
    /tmp/hello: line 1: hello world: command not found

It prints hello world :-)

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Re:The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 fami... by vardump on Saturday September 15, 2018 @09:28AM (#17994215)

Great idea! I improved the "program":

  $ cat >hello
  Hello\ World\!
  $ chmod +x hello
  $ ./hello
  ./hello: line 1: Hello World!: command not found

V0.2 changelog:

* fix: adheres to Hello World! standard now

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