"Omit needless words", from Strunk & White.

> "Omit needless words", from Strunk & White.

Which is better phrased "Omit!"

After all, are you going to omit essential words? No!

And are you going to omit something other than words, like kumquats, maybe? No!

Or perhaps the self referential comedic version:

Omit? Omit!

> You should look for yourself at Mozilla’s financials if you don’t agree with my politics.

It has nothing to do with your politics, but I shall continue to not care about Mozilla's financials.

I read that as "Yes, Bog does formatted strings", and appreciate the density.

The purpose of a Hello World, however, is not to showcase language features, it’s to provide a minimal program that produces output, to test that your dev environment is working properly, and for you to learn how to operate it. Adding any unnecessary complications to it only adds further sources of error.

Do you think real people will get confused and think the only way to write hello world in bog is using a variable ?

Or do you think most people will automatically adjust and think "hello world in itself doesn't show much, so the author decided to include something more informative and keep call that hello world" ?

I think he shouldn‘t have called it a Hello World if its purpose is to showcase a language feature instead of serving as an actual Hello World.

Obviously the examples in a README for a programming language are going to showcase said language's features.

Are you talking about CERN's decision to put their web client and server source code into the public domain in 1993? It seems like a stretch - to me - to attribute the success of the web to that decision.

It was probably a big factor. Gopher was a real competitor initially but the University of Minnesota which owned the IP started trying to charge license fees in Feb ‘93- I suspect CERN’s decision was a response to this as well as MOSAIC’s similar efforts around the same time.

Was there a single university that didn't have NCSA Mosaic installed and available to their X terminals after that?

This still doesn't add up to me.

You couldn't predict that CERN's protocol would win, but you COULD predict that a public domain protocol would win.

Proof:

For every pair {protocolX,protocolY} where functionality(protocolX) = functionality(protocolY) && isPublicDomain(protocolX) == true && isPublicDomain(protocolY) == false, then speedAndUtility(protocolX) >> speedAndUtility(protocolY).

https://breckyunits.com/how-the-public-domain-can-win.html