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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No line breaks. Just one long line of code.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

All line breaks. Just one tower of code.

class
HelloWorld
{
public
static
void
main(String[]
args)
{
System.out.println("Hello,
World!");
}
}
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

as always, c++ lets us do better in breathtakingly elegant fashion:

#\
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n\
c\
l\
u\
d\
e\
 \ 
<\
i\
o\
s\
t\
r\
e\
a\
m\
>

finishing out hello world is left as an exercise to the reader, but the advantages and superior performance of this format should be obvious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

why not

...

System
.out
.println(
"Hello,

...

?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I’ve seen some people who code like this