Hello world… pffft.

I did not generate that message. It’s just the default post of a wordpress installation. You’re probably sick of it already. Like you, I also hate the phrase “Hello World!” for a couple of reasons:

1. Nothing says noob coder here more strongly than a page with “hello world” in it. Seriously, if you’re setting up websites with hello world in the homepage, you had better stop it. You look like a dork. And a stupid one at that.
2. It’s boring. There aren’t any ‘interesting’ legends attached to it. It was just used in one of the first programming books… and the others picked up on it. If I were to code my first program, I’d post something along the lines of Holy shit! It worked! wouldn’t you?
3. I just hate seeing it there because this is the fifth time I’m installing a wordpress blog (here or otherwise) and I haven’t gotten past the “hello world” post yet.

So much for a whiny first post. (What, you thought there was more?)