The Little Program That Could
Interesting
all age range
50 to 100 words
English
Once upon a time, there was a little program who was brand new.
All it could do was display one line of text: "Hello World!".
The older programs chuckled.
One day, a file got corrupted, and nobody knew what to do.
Someone said 'Use that new little program! Maybe it can help'.
The little program peeked at the corrupted file if it contained a specific sequence of bytes.
Lo and behold, with a single command, the little program found the problem.
From then on, the little program was appreciated by all!