Firas Durri: Enthusiast

From Scott Rosenberg’s excellent new book, Dreaming in Code:

“Hello World� looks more forbidding in Java, one of the workhorse programming languages in today’s business world:

     class HelloWorld {
          public static void main (String args[]){
               System.out.println("Hello World!");
               }
          }

Public static void: gazillions of chunks of program code written in Java include that cryptic sequence. The words carry specific technical meaning. But I’ve always heard them as a bit of machine poetry, evoking the desolate limbo where software projects that begin with high spirits too often end up.