Creating a C++ "Hello world" application

Why I thought this wasn't a good thing to post:

~Anybody could Google this, the article was nothing special, nothing new or groundbreaking, or even an `oldy but goody`

Why an article like http://asm.sourceforge.net/intro/hello.html (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663858) is great to post:

~Thoroughly explains how things work, even an experienced programmer would be interested (See `good hackers` below)

~Contains material of discussion worth.

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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "

EDIT: Yes I figured this would get me a downvote.

I hate c++. I've always hated it. I first remember being aware of it in 1983. We didn't have the Internet then, so it could have only been through magazines that I became aware of it. I remember looking at it and thinking, "This can't be the future!" I still do.

Through the years loves have come and gone. Fortune has come and gone and come and gone and come and... My hatred of c++ is the one consistent thread through all those years.

Even looking at the most innocuous of programs, a Hello World program, makes my skin crawl. It is ugly beyond words. A festering, oozing pustule.

It is a solace that Linus came out and declared his hand in 2007, and I leave it to his calm, considered, understated words to support the case for quietly putting this redundant mess of a language to sleep.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

I look forward to the article entitled, "Creating the final C++ "Goodbye world" application.