//hello.cxx: traditional first program
 // author: your name, today's date
 #include <iostream>
 #include <string>

 using namespace std;

 // print theString followed by a newline character
 void printTheString(const string & theString)
 {
    cout << theString << endl;
 }

 int main()
{
   printTheString("Hello, world.");
   return 0;
}