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:::::: The easiest thing would be to remove all incorrect tags (everywhere). That way, no changes (corrections) would have to be made. Incorrect programs? Just change the task requirements. Can't produce a list of primes? Just use Fibonacci numbers instead. But seriously, if a language can't meet the requirements, I see no reason why it can't just say that (and why), and use a best-effort example (with notation). If examples start using any (salutation) string they wish, it doesn't make for good comparisons. How would most people know that lowercase letters aren't allowed in a language, or that some specific punctuation characters are not supported? Using non-Latin characters would also be problematic. Having a common set of punctuation helps also. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
: I just noticed that in [http://www.rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Hello_world%2FText&type=revision&diff=211993&oldid=211728 September of last year] someone took it upon themselves to make "Hello world!" the required output string for this task, and attempted to update all of the existing solutions to match. However, since this was mostly done as a find-and-replace, there are a number of languages that have not been updated (Befunge, Brainf***, Chef, etc.), and a number of others are now broken because the updated text uses mixed case which their language doesn't support (e.g. ALGOL 60 and Applesoft BASIC). There are also several places where comments, classes or variable names still refer to the original "Goodbye World" text, and now no longer make any sense.
: Since this occurred some time ago, and there have been several new additions to the page since the task description changed, simply reverting the original examples to what they were before is not really a solution. Either way you still end up with a page that is a messed up mix of both "Hello world" and "Goodbye World". And updating the new entries doesn't look particularly easy either, so that's not something I would want to attempt myself. For now I'm just noting the problem, but leaving things as they are. Hopefully someone more senior than me can suggest what should be done to fix this (if anything). --[[User:J4 james|j4_james]] ([[User talk:J4 james|talk]]) 22:55, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
== Audible Hello World? ==
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