Comment by 112233

This is a very well argumented and presented article, that agrees with your sentiment and ends with:

"What I can say at this point is that I personally am not going to embark on a quest to get application programmers to check for errors from close.

And so, my conclusion here is that, no, our hello world program does not have a bug. It's fine. It's just fine."

I think many programmers have felt the exasperation you so well expressed in your comment.