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Color Scheme

I'm red-green colorblind, is there any way that the colors could be changed to stand out for someone like me?

Thanks,

Centrisian (talk) 20:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This any better?

--Kizor 22:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This prints "Hello World!". Note that whitespace characters have been given differently coloured backgrounds since, in practice, they are invisible. (Space, Tab)

   
   	  	   
		    	
   		  	 	
		    	 
   		 		  
		    		
   		 		  
		    
	  
   		 				
		    	 	
   	 		  
		    		 
   	     
		    			
   			 			
		  
  	   
   		 				
		    	  	
   			  	 
		    	 	 
   		 		  
		    	 		
   		  
	  
		    		  
   	    	
		    		 	
   		 	
		    			 
   	 	 
		    				
    
	
	     
empty-line
    	
empty-line
 			 
empty-line
	  	 
	
     	
	   
empty-line
  	
empty-line
   	 
empty-line
empty-line/EOF

A lot better. if this could be implemented, that would be great. Also, sorry for being awol so long for a reply. Centrisian (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whitespace should be white: that's surely the whole point. Showing it in pink and lilac is cheating. Mhkay (talk) 15:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Markers

I've added in markers to separate the characters, in the hope of improving clarity - I'm not sure whether it's actually turned out better or not; if people disagree then please do give reasons and revert. --82.70.156.254 (talk) 01:08, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I don’t think they’re necessary since it’s already highlighted… and I’m not sure anything could help this language’s clarity. Still, they don’t do any harm since the interpreter ignores them. But here’s one vote against them, which makes it a tie. —Frungi (talk) 19:17, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"This article does not cite any references or sources."

This is an incorrect statement, although it may have been correct when it was added.

What is the process for removing it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.166.54.44 (talk) 16:57, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does the Hello World actually works?

I copy/pasted the code to ideone.com. Some characters not visible in the code were printed there, but since they're supposed to be ignored, I let them there. The interpreter threw out this error: "Fail: user error (Can't do Dup)". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.77.168.10 (talk) 13:45, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]