From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-03-08T08:10:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Hello, world? (#158)

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Hi,

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Matthew Moss <matthew.moss@gmail.com> wrote:

> My final comment on this quiz... It's interesting to note that few people
> actually printed output to spec. The quiz asked for "Hello, world!" while
> I'd say the majority provided "Hello, World!". Had I written a unit test
> to
> verify the solutions, most would have failed. Granted, I'm getting a
> little
> silly in mentioning this, but it made me wonder about two things.
>
> First, why was everyone capitalizing both words? Was "Hello, World!" the
> more
> traditional response than "Hello, world!"? Or, perhaps, by having both
> words
> capitalized, did it allow some folks to keep the code simpler?
>

I think, as far as my own experience goes, that many people - despite
perhaps being grammar sticklers - still are used to seeing "Hello, World!"
from many test programs while learning to code. Just the way things turned
out, maybe. :)

Arlen

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