[mtdewcmu]

Ask the person to implement "Hello world" and then count the lines of code, number of classes, inheritance depth, number of external dependencies, etc.

[rhizome]

    $ perl -wle "print 'hello world'"

[kornish]

    $ echo "hello world"

[relyio]

  "Hello World"

[tyingq]

  echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\nvoid main() {printf(\"Hello world\\\n\");}" | gcc -o ./foo -xc - && ./foo && rm foo

[Sohcahtoa82]

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[mtdewcmu]

  echo "Hello world!" > hello.php
  php hello.php

[honestoHeminway]

Thats plain java-cism there.