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Remove spurious newlines from Gopher conversion of sloum's article.

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@ -182,12 +182,9 @@ I do not know much about the Windows command line, so from here on I will be
talking about Linux/BSD/OSX. If you enter:
cd ~
mkdir programming_practice
cd programming_practice
You will move directories to your home directory. The program `cd` takes a file
path as an argument. In this case the `~` is something the shell (the actual
program running inside the terminal that lets you input commands) knows to
@ -198,7 +195,6 @@ You can always go directly to this folder with:
cd ~/programming_practice
Then you can run `ls` to see any files or subfolders you may want to work on/in.
You now have a place to work on programs. You can navigate to this folder in a
@ -260,21 +256,15 @@ Create a file named `hello.py` in the current directory (`nano hello.py`, for
example) and enter the following text:
def say_hello():
name = input("What is your name? ")
print("Hello " + name)
say_hello()
Then run the following in your terminal/shell:
python3 ./hello.py
If it doesn't work, make sure you have Python 3 installed (type `python3
--version` at the shell and see if you get a Python version number printed. It
is possible that the program may be called `python` on your system, in which
@ -290,27 +280,18 @@ the file is using the `cd` command. Then try running the program again.
Create a file named `hello.lua` and enter the following text:
function say_hello()
io.write("What is your name? ")
io.flush()
local name = io.read()
print("Hello " .. name)
end
say_hello()
Then run the following in your terminal/shell:
lua ./hello.lua
If it doesn't work, make sure you have Lua installed (type `lua -v` at the
shell, if you get a version number printed then you are good to go, if not then
you should check your install instructions for Lua).
@ -331,36 +312,22 @@ text:
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func main() {
var name string
fmt.Print("What is your name? ")
fmt.Scanln(&name)
fmt.Printf("Hello %s", name)
}
Then run the following in your terminal/shell:
go build
./go_hello
You may notice that running the program is a little different here. We call `go
build` first. This compiles the program into an executable file. We then run
that file by giving the shell the path to the file (`./` just means "inside the