Hello World

[Roy Smith]

In article <0udf9a1m3n02rt06a5ib58mvifm7sdeg31 at 4ax.com>,
 Steve Hayes <hayesstw at telkomsa.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:51:02 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 
> >Tony the Tiger wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:57:08 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I am in total awe.
> >> 
> >> I'm not. It has no real value. Write your code like that and you'll soon
> >> be looking for a new job.
> >
> >Awww, did da widdle puddy tat get up on the wrong side of the bed this
> >morning? :-)
> >
> >
> >Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use,
> >except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code
> >for production use.
> 
> Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome".
> 
> And my second thought was that it was scary.
> 
> I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed.
> 
> But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk?
> 
> How would I have known that it would or wouldn't do that?

How would you know any code you download from the net won't reformat 
your disk?  If I wanted to write something evil, I wouldn't write it to 
look obfuscated.  I'd write it to look like it did something useful.