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::: Understood. The point of verifying if an example will pass the "what-is-a-legal/special-character" was foremost on my mind. I know a few languages treat an exclamation point ['''!'''] as special. I hope flagging the various program examples won't be construed as picayune; the task is almost a definition of simplicity itself. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 19:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
:::: Yes, it's difficult to not be silly when the task itself is somewhat silly. That said, note that some of your "incorrect" markers might not be completely accurate. Perhaps we should ask for example output? For example, I believe that $ is by convention a string terminator in 8086 assembly (like ascii nul character in C)What .
::::: Yes, I would like to see the output of the '''Chef''' example, for one. I would also like to know if any languages '''don't''' support lowercase, or for that matter, "special" characters like the exclamation point ['''!''']. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:03, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
::::: I don't feel that his task is silly, brief and simplistic as it is. In any case, if amyone has questions about any possible incorrect flags that I did, please raise them here. I based my flagging ('''incorrect output''') if the first word is '''Hello''' instead of '''Goodbye''', and/or no comma (followed by a space), '''world''' instead of '''World''', and/or no trailing exclamation point ['''!''']. Also, the case of the words must be (only) the first letter capitalized. In other words, it must be ''exactly'': '''Goodbye, World!''' ------- Whatever the error(s), they'll be simple to fix. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
::::: What if they're not simple to fix, or even possible? I don't think a language should be excluded from this page - the canonical simplest task ever for any programming language - just because they don't have the ability to output the exact string chosen by the creator of the task. This should be the one task on RosettaCode that has an entry for almost every language on the site; only those that completely lack text output should be excluded. But Applesoft BASIC doesn't have lowercase, HQ9+ can output "Hello world" but not "Goodbye, World!" ... [[User:Markjreed|Markjreed]] 05:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
== Audible Hello World? ==
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