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in comp.lang.c.moderated, schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) said:


>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.

Quoting K&R1:

   The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing
   programs in it.  The first program to write is the same for all
   languages:

      Print the words
              hello, world

   [...]  In C, the program to print "hello, world" is

      main()
      {
          printf("hello, world\n");
      }

K&R2 adds "#include <stdio.h>" to this program.  That addition should be
made if we're speaking of ANSI C (vs. traditional pre-ANSI X3.159-1989 C).

-- 
mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)