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Where does the practice to use 'hello, world' as the first example for computer languages originate from?
Where was it first used? Update
Although the answers are quite interesting, I should have noted that I had read the Wikipedia article. It does answer the question about the first use in literature, but does not answer when 'hello world' was first used.
So I think that it is safe to conclude that it was not the first sentence ever to be displayed on a computer screen and that there is no record about when it was first used? language-agnostichistory Share Improve this question Follow edited Oct 3, 2023 at 8:48 community wiki
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Jacco 0 Add a comment | 7 Answers 7 Sorted by: Reset to default Highest score (default) Trending (recent votes count more) Date modified (newest first) Date created (oldest first) 111 Brian Kernighan actually wrote the first "hello, world" program as part of the documentation for the BCPL programming language developed by Martin Richards.