Goodbye World

The last C program you will ever write:

#include
main()
{
printf("goodbye, world\n");
}


If it is really your last C program, you should at least do this program right:

#include
#include
int main()
{
printf("goodbye, world\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


Oh come in-)), If it is really your last C program, you should at least do this program right in C++, not C!:

#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "goodbye, world" << endl;
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


Or the last shell script you'll ever write:

#!/usr/bin/bash
rm -rf /


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Well, if you were really clever, you'd know why you could get away with this:

main() { printf("Goodbye, world\n"); return 0; }


And on most systems with:

main() { return !!printf("Goodbye, world\n"); }


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No-one loves TCL

proc suicide() {
return [puts "Goodbye cruel world!"]
}


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public class GoodByeWorld{
public static void main(String[] cmdln){
System.out.println("Goodbye, world");
}
}


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I believe the Perl way is more authentic.

#!/usr/bin/perl
die( "Goodbye, world!\n" );


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Maybe it's better said with poetry. See http://www.erzsebel.com/clock/clockarchives/002485.html