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Timeline for Evolution of "Hello World!"

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Jun 17, 2020 at 9:04 history edited CommunityBot
Commonmark migration
Apr 13, 2017 at 12:39 history edited CommunityBot
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Nov 5, 2014 at 5:46 comment added hijarian @Pietu1998 Haha, well, indeed. Without PHP syntax it's pretty weird to think of the source to actually be the PHP program. :)
Oct 31, 2014 at 8:04 comment added PurkkaKoodari @Petah So? This is not code golf. We are not supposed to make it as short or as easy to continue as possible.
Oct 31, 2014 at 2:28 comment added Petah You don't need the closing ?>
Oct 29, 2014 at 6:02 comment added PurkkaKoodari Well, I didn't want to go that way. I could've called it Text if I just put the contents there, so I added the extra PHP syntax.
Oct 29, 2014 at 4:30 comment added hijarian I have realized that you'll need to remove quotation marks (which makes it Levenstein distance 2) to be fully compliant.
Oct 29, 2014 at 4:30 comment added hijarian @Dennis If you write a script helloworld.php, and put the 12 symbols Hello World! in there and then you run this script with php helloworld.php, you'll get Hello World! printed to stdout as PHP treat everything outside of <?php ?> processing instruction as raw text to output.
Oct 28, 2014 at 21:02 comment added Dennis @hijarian: That's only true for the PHP shell, which makes it invalid for this challenge.
Oct 28, 2014 at 11:55 comment added hijarian Please note that the string "Hello World!" verbatim, which is obviously distance 0 from answer 2, is a valid PHP program outputting the required string, and explicit print statement is unnecessary.
Oct 27, 2014 at 6:27 history answered PurkkaKoodari CC BY-SA 3.0