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Article #2005Re: Canonical hello world (was: Check if A-drive is ready)
From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 06:07
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 06:07
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In <4fu7sn$991@solutions.solon.com> schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) writes: >ObC: What is the canonical first program to write in C? Is it > > "Hello World\n" or > "Hello, world\n" or > "hello world\n" or what? > >Please cite authoritative sources or use statistics. According to the most authoritative source, K&R2, which introduced the program (well, it was K&R1), it's "hello, world\n". It seems that B. Kernighan likes punctuation but hates capitalization :-) Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated Subject: Re: Canonical hello world (was: Check if A-drive is ready) Date: 16 Feb 1996 00:07:01 -0600 Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com Message-ID: <4g16u6$mng@solutions.solon.com> References: <4fstjt$2lp@solutions.solon.com> <4fu7sn$991@solutions.solon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)