tony$ g++ /tmp/wut.cpp
/tmp/wut.cpp: In function ?int main()?:
/tmp/wut.cpp:9: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
/tmp/wut.cpp:9: error: unknown escape sequence '\)'
/tmp/wut.cpp:10: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
/tmp/wut.cpp:10: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
/tmp/wut.cpp:11: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
/tmp/wut.cpp:11: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
/tmp/wut.cpp:12: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
/tmp/wut.cpp:12: error: unknown escape sequence '\)'
/tmp/wut.cpp:13: error: unknown escape sequence '\_'
/tmp/wut.cpp:13: error: unknown escape sequence '\_'

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
cout << " ) " << endl
<< " ( /( " << endl
<< " )\\()) ) ( ( " << endl
<< " ((_)\\ ( /( ( )\\))( " << endl
<< "__ ((_) )(_)) )\\ ) ((_))\\ " << endl
<< "\\ \\ / /((_)_ _(_/( (()(_) " << endl
<< " \\ V / / _` || ' \\))/ _` | " << endl
<< " |_| \\__,_||_||_| \\__, | " << endl
<< " |___/ " << endl;
}

I've never coded in c++ and even I know this. Here take a look at this:



The problem with your code is that the strings contain the escape character ("\"). I won't explain what it does, but to use it in a string you must type in two of them ("\\") and thus your output will only display as one.

@Tony Well idk why, but it worked for me though :/

the escape character exists so that one can describe special characters

\n -- new line
\t -- tab

etc.

Of course that leaves us with a single problem -- how to describe a sequence of characters "\n" as backslash.n instead of newline? Well, you escape the escape character! \\n


Show that

tony$ g++ --version
i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)

Compiler specifics vary wildly between the various platforms (operating system and CPU-type combinations, such as Windows on x86, Windows on x64, Linux x86, Linux ARM, Linux Sparc, Linux PowerPC, Linux x64, Linux Itanium, ...).

Compiler specifics vary wildly between the various platforms (operating system and CPU-type combinations, such as Windows on x86, Windows on x64, Linux x86, Linux ARM, Linux Sparc, Linux PowerPC, Linux x64, Linux Itanium, ...).

Linux is an operating system kernel. It's bundled with a lot of utilities made by the GNU group, so properly the base operating system is called GNU/Linux, though most people just call it Linux. There are hundreds or thousands of "distributions" of Linux, each of which gives you a slightly different user interface and set of programs.

So, when people say "linux", they usually mean "a distribution of the GNU/Linux base system, with a bunch of other stuff on top".

Nearly all distributions are free and open-source. Support is generally not free, but there are communities that offer support for each distribution. You can install most distributions by downloading a CD or DVD image, burning it to disk, putting that disk in the drive and rebooting (subject to BIOS boot order and a lot of complexity I won't get into here).

There are a few much-more-popular desktop distributions, including Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian (all in the same "family", with Debian being the "father"). Android is based on Linux. With Ubuntu and Mint, you can download a "LiveCD", which is just a disk that you can start the operating system from, without needing to permanently change anything about your existing computer setup.