Hello World

[Steve Hayes]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:51:02 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

>Tony the Tiger wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:57:08 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> 
>>> I am in total awe.
>> 
>> I'm not. It has no real value. Write your code like that and you'll soon
>> be looking for a new job.
>
>Awww, did da widdle puddy tat get up on the wrong side of the bed this
>morning? :-)
>
>
>Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use,
>except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code
>for production use.

Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome".

And my second thought was that it was scary.

I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed.

But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk?

How would I have known that it would or wouldn't do that?


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