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The Evolution of a Programmer 215

The Evolution of a Programmer

[We’d love to assign credit for this, but it’s been whizzing around Cyber-
space for so long that the task would probably be impossible. —Eds.]

High school/Junior high

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

20 END

First year in college

program Hello(input, output);

begin

writeln ('Hello world');

end.

Senior year in college

(defun hello ()

(print (list 'HELLO 'WORLD)))

New professional

#include <stdio.h>

main (argc,argv)

int argc;

char **argv; {

printf ("Hello World!\n");

}