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'Hello world' is there any reason behind why programming languages uses that 2 words?

11th Nov 2019, 4:42 PM
Bhim Kumar Wakhley
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As in so much else: historical reasons... someone got started with it, others copied it. The first recorded occurrence of a “hello, world” program can be found in “A TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LANGUAGE B” written in 1972 (chapter 7) https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/btut.pdf
11th Nov 2019, 5:49 PM
Michael
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Don’t get it twisted though, it could just aswell be “Yo, 2Pac”
11th Nov 2019, 7:07 PM
.Houdini
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Well "hello world" actually means that you know the basics of the programming language/script you are using to the world.
12th Nov 2019, 6:42 PM
Pratik Kandir
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I guess for the same reasons that errors are called bugs. Someone used it once because their mechanical computer physically had a bug (dead moth) in it and it caught on so now everyone uses it.
13th Nov 2019, 3:54 AM
ZIAMI
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