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Where does ‘Hello world’ come from?
What was the first Hello World application written in?
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3duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602237/where-does-hello-world-come-from – Nick Dandoulakis Mar 08 '10 at 14:44
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program
The first known instance of the usage of the words "hello" and "world" together in computer literature occurred earlier, in Kernighan's 1972 Tutorial Introduction to the Language B
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When I first started programming (20 years ago) my mom told me about her Hello World program she wrote in college. She used punch cards.
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It's true that my mom programmed in college with punch cards, would have been 1960-1963, but the "Hello World" part was actually a joke. B was invented in 1969 so definitely was not in B. COBOL and Fortran existed at the time, but I don't know if she programmed in those or in straight assembly, as was common with punch cards. – Samuel Neff Jun 28 '12 at 16:08
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I believe that the first Hello World was written in C and published in the book The C Programming Language.
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