Hypercross: Hello, world!

let me be the first (possibly the last too, but) HUH?

well this seems to require special skills...which I certainly do not have.

Seems pretty obvious to me, but I don't have the knowledge to solve it.

huh?

OMG, I don't get ANY of these tonight!

you do not have to know javascript to get this do you? becase everyone knows javascript

[3] yeah, obvious to a coder/programmer, but not me by any stretch

Is #2 supposed to be 1 letter?

BTW If I remember correctly this is in fact javascript, and it is the series of commands that you learn to do your first program "Hello world"

Yay! A 1st!

another lame scavenger hunt. not a puzzle.

Are you sure it's not in a bunch of different programming languages--only one of which is java script?

[7] yep, same here.

4th. Fortunately, it's by and large easy to Google. (I knew some of them, miraculously; pieced together much of the rest; Googled at the end.)

I got the theme, but I can't solve more than a few of them.

[8] yes

11th! I knew that CSci degree would be useful for something eventually.

Wow, there were a lot of them I didn't have a clue about, but finally got it. Boy, if you don't know anything about the theme, you are going to have a bit of a hard time finishing this, but you should be able to finish it with google's help

makes it not a lot of fun....if I want to work at something, I want to get paid.....;o(

stuck on #7

Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote a Hello World program...

[19] Agree, heck I am just flat stuck.

nm, got #7 through wiki

Theme was easy, but it's not worth it to me to go through the effort of researching the 11 I don't know.

Wow, CW! You had some guts posting this :-)

I like the puzzle, but I doubt many will.

It's not too hard to google a list for these. I found one from a German site (de) that helped the most. The page had both the summary and detail so it was easy to use for crossword find and find strings.

I got most, but had to search for 5 of them. Wiki is the place to look.

Yes #2 is one letter.

Yes it is many different languages.

Javascript is one of them and of course there is only one place it will fit.

i got them all but according to the wiki page i was referencing, and all my answers fit. something's not taking though. can i TG my answers to someone to check what's wrong?

[28] sure

nvmd it must have been a glitch. it took it when i tried again even though i didn't change anything.

I got it, but I had to look up all but one. I've only used 3 myself.

Being a code-wrangler from the 70s, I got all of them right off except for one.

Too bad one of the old classics... COBOL wasn't in there.

Wouldn't you know it. I decide to better myself by staying at the gym past Tanga-Time and of course there is a computer-geek puzzle posted. Luckily, I have programmed in most of these, (although it's been a looong time for most of 'em) so I still got a few bonus points.

Really surprised to find #7 in there, and like [32] said, no CROBAR, er COBOL?

Yeah, I went looking for Cobol, too.

Loved it. Thanks!

Knew them all but 5 and 9... guess I'll have to google those two unless someone will salt them. ;)

EDIT: After posting, I recognized 9.

[36] #5: I could see how you could have a *devil* of a time with this one; you may know it as the name of a *star*

[37] Thanks, I got it from google... found a great site for non-programmers. I'll post it after 100 solves if I'm still up.

I don't want to think what it means that I was able to identify all but one of these without googling...

[25] This was one of my first attempts at making a Hypercross. I had only been around tanga for a few days and thought I'd try my hand at making a puzzle.

So, yeah ... I'm a geek. I know the theme isn't for everyone, but for those who did get it, I hope it was fun.

A note for those who aren't programmers: this is the single most famous program in computer history. It's often someone's first program when they start learning a new language.

sorry, nice idea but way too much work for a layman.

I haven't coded in over twenty years, almost got lost in stupid parentheses.

yeah Arnott, it IS worse, at least with sports teams or song titles you can recognize the answer when you see it...I found a really good site, had scads of great info, and I still couldn't just look at them and know which was which, so it became a real chore to flip back and forth to the puzzle back to the info, back again to see if it's even close. I know most of the names, but not the actual guts, so I must respectfully disagree with your assessment. Sorry CW...I am not saying you didn't create a good puzzle, because I think you did....what I am saying is that it was quite difficult for those of us who do not/did not program. Almost as hard as one that is totally face recognition

[43] I think the BIG difference between this and face recognition is that you've actually got searchable text in each clue. When you're trying to nail down a mascot or an actor, you've often got nothing but salt to work with.

I'm not saying this is a great puzzle, but even if you choose to simply google the contents of each clue, it is solvable. I would say this is easier for the non-programmer than many other puzzles are for non-sports or non-Hollywood types.

Oh well, the good news is that it'll likely be a while before you're tortured again with this kind of puzzle.

your opinion is as valid as mine....and mine is as valid as yours....I admited it is a good puzzle, not being argumentative, just expressing mine. sorry if you dislike that aspect of things. I believe my real point was that for non-programmers this wasn't much fun....so not fun that I didn't finish it...and that is highly unusual for me and hypercross puzzles. Please don't let anything I say change your opinion of this puzzle....not my intent

Great puzzle today!

[11] and [19], now you now how I feel whenever a puzzle has actors or movies in it :)

Ironically, the Easy OWW seems to exactly this kind of puzzle, where you have to search lists of items for matches. Perfect for coffee aficionados, but not my cup of tea.

Must be time to clean the lists at Tanga.

I love this one! Two or three were a little tricky to find, but wikibooks and others are super useful (and probably nostalgic for some of us). This's the best of the search-through-lists-to-find-the-answer-if-you-don't-know-the-specific-theme, yet! I've only ever used maybe four or five of these, but could pin down most within a few searches.

#6 was frustrating, not only because I hadn't used it since middle school, but because I wanted that language to be on the list, and didn't recognize that format anymore. I was expecting the straight text output version -- not the hard way.

Okay so all of my answers fit and, to the best of my searching ability, are correct with the programming language. Still getting a sorry not correct. Can I shoot my answers to someone for verification?

Search for Hello World Collection on Google and the first site should give you everything you need.

It's Embarassing... I've got a CS degree back in 1997, and I've been working FOR MICROSOFT in the Developer Division for half a decade, and *I* don't know half of these. *SIGH*

Well that was hard...I know nothing about this but googling solved everything...not exactly "fun" but I learned a thing or two and the puzzle is certainly fair if I can solve it with nothing but grunt work....it would never be a top 100 finish for me thouh!!!

I just joined Tanga to solve this. drove me crazy, but I love it! had to google 5 of them... but I've only ever used 6 of the 14 languages so I guess that's reasonable.

Little much salt, eh [53]?

Geeky fun! [32] COBOL isn't in there because COBOL doesn't belong *anywhere*! ;)

For those who need a link - http://helloworld.googletoad.com/?q=L

[57] interesting link, Gus..International Christian Academy...

This one worked better for me:

http://www.scriptol.com/programming/hello-world.php

That was worse than Cleopatra.

sorry....not even going to try.....looks Greek to me