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> I have a web robot which is a Java app.

I am reminded of Linus's announcement of Linux:

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, as they say.

It would be pretty cool to put stuff like this together in a kind of an online code museum.

A while ago I tried to track down the initial check-in comments for a number of open source projects, with mixed results.

The Go one is particularly interesting.

What is particularly interesting about "hello, world"?

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