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The '''Hello World''' program is probably the most widely recreated piece of software ever as it is used by many programming languages books and articles as a cursory introduction into a language's [[syntax]]. It was introduced in the book ''The C Programming Language'' and is often one of the first programs that a [[programmer]] writes when learning a [[programming language]], as it introduces the [[programmer]] to the constructs that he/she will be dealing with in the particular language at hand, familiarizing him with [[variable (programming)|variables]] and output.
A '''Hello World''' program, as first introduced in the book ''The C Programming Language'', is a very short program that typically just prints a word or two of output to a console.  Such a program is often one of the first programs that a [[programmer]] writes when learning a [[programming language]], as it provide's a cursory introduction to the language's [[syntax]] and output.


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 21:12, 20 September 2007

Hello World program in a terminal

A Hello World program, as first introduced in the book The C Programming Language, is a very short program that typically just prints a word or two of output to a console. Such a program is often one of the first programs that a programmer writes when learning a programming language, as it provide's a cursory introduction to the language's syntax and output.

See also

99 Bottles of Beer

External links

The Hello World Collection in more than 300 programming languages