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Re:The worst possible Hello World program by thwarted on Sunday April 03, 2011 @03:54AM (#2402113)
We now use puts instead of printf. puts does not try to insert any values into the string, and it supplies the terminating newline (the \n you saw before) for us.

I don't see how "does not try to insert any values into the string" and "supplies the terminating newline" are not contradictory.

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Re:The worst possible Hello World program by boredzo on Sunday April 03, 2011 @03:55AM (#2402119)
It writes the whole string as passed, without inserting anything into it, and then writes the newline.
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