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by tuldia 2358 days ago
> Are you being difficult on purpose?

Programming is about paying the bare minimum attention to the details.

> [...] two methods of accomplishing the same thing [...]

Absolutelly not.

one prints:

  72000000 hello
  72000000 world
the other

  hello 72000000
  world 72000000
Now try both examples against a file with more than one column to understand what I'm talking about ;)