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schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
in <4fu7sn$991@solutions.solon.com> asks:

>ObC: What is the canonical first program to write in C?  Is it

>        "Hello World\n" or
>        "Hello, world\n" or
>        "hello world\n" or what?

>Please cite authoritative sources or use statistics.

I don't know if there is a more hoary and authoritative source than
K&R1.  It is certainly part of the canon, even though it is the "Old
Testament."

Kernighan, Brian W. & Ritchie, Dennis M., _The C Programming Language_,
1978, Prentice Hall, Inc.
p. 5:
    The first program is the same for all languages:
        Print the words
            hello, world

p. 6:
    main()
    {
        printf("hello, world\n");
    }

The _second program_ is
p. 7:
    main()
    {
        printf("hello, ");
        printf("world");
        printf("\n");
    }
                                    
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