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Re:Hello, world by ghc on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @09:43AM (#3533402)
Lisp wasn't the right tool for the job because back when this was written (1997 or so, if I remember correctly) there were a lot of reasons Lisp was not the right tool for the job, the biggest reason being that chances were your Unix admin had made sure Python or Perl was available, but not Lisp (outside of Emacs).
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Re:Hello, world by Turing_Machine on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:16PM (#3534976)
If the goal is minimalism, why not just:

echo Hello World

at the command prompt? That works in every Unix or Linux shell I know of, and even MS-DOS. There's no need to fire up a separate full-blown interpreter or worry about it being installed. :-)

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