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Where does the "Hello World!" example come from?

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Just a quick search on wikipedia gaves : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program#History

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

dzen  2010-06-04 06:46:26

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