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"Hello World" -- it's a selection as a Content Column, yet it's not explained in the documentation at all. What is its purpose? |
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Okay - that tells me how it was created -- my question was what is its purpose? What is the difference between the "Hello World" content block and an "HTML" content block, other than the Hello World you cannot edit the text from within the BVAdmin panel. I feel like I'm missing something; there must be some distinct purpose for it. |
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Google it. - really!!!
Goes way back to the early days of programming. |
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I guess I'm a little too practical. My question really is:
What are people using it for? What practical use will it serve me?
If it's merely a "programming example" - then okay, I can ignore it, but not being a developer perhaps I'm not seeing the implications of its use! :-) |
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It's a programing example with a little touch of humor I suspect.
The very first html program you write in pretty much any class prints a web page that says "Hello World".
What better use of an example elementary content block?
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<whistfully>... ah, yes... Takes me back to my TRS-80 Basic days.....
> Ready
> 10 Cls
> 20 Sprint "Hello World"
> 30 Wait Secs 1
> 40 Cls
> On KBinput Stop
> GoTo 20
...or somethng like that.
Anyone else get Cload magazine - on cassette? Google "Dancing Demon" for a real way-back trip. How about the Radio Shack accoustic coupler running at 300 baud? |
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Ahh ... maybe I recall something like that from my "Apple Basic" days -- boy, that was a lifetime ago, one I choose not to remember, so:
>10 "Goodbye World"
>20 "Hello VS" |
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Mitch,
I still have my TRS-80 Model I sitting in my basement. I used a 300 baud (direct connect, not acoustic) modem to access Compuserve with a text only interface. |
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OK... further back....
How about IBM selectrics serving as terminals dialing in to mainframes over the internet in 1973? Our HS had two terminals in the library which were hooked up to Rutgers for 3 hours a day. The sign-up list was intense. You got 15 minute blocks to work on your project. On good days, we could get into MIT's system.
"Eliza" (the shrink) was the best.... |
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Whoa Mitch.... I won't even mention when I was born! And the funny thing is... I'm the oldest guy at BV! I did however once have the pleasure of working on a old Navy mainframe that did not actually have a keyboard and monitor, but instead used a typewriter to input and output information! That was a fun day. |
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Right kid... now go get me a glass of water. |
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You guys are all a bunch of young sprouts. I went through college using a slide rule and actually got to play with a Monroe Calculator once. Locked the thing up in 3 min. It was in a research lab too. lol.
Anybody use an Abacus?
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Oh, yea? Well I had to mine my own chalk and split my own slate tablets just so I ........ |
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I guess I'm pretty young compared to some of you, but I did have to learn COBOL in college. Yuck! The last year we got to learn VB though. :) |
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