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First idiomatic use of Hello World, in C

In Brief: The first use of "Hello World" as printed output. Debuting in Brian Kernighan's 1974 Programming in C: A Tutorial , these humble phrases were the first lines of C code in the tutorial and appeared several years before Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book based on the tutorial immortalized this pattern for students of C everywhere ( C Programming Language ).... more
Language C
# 's
1main( ) {
2 printf("hello, world");
3 }

The first use of "Hello World" as printed output. Debuting in Brian Kernighan's 1974 Programming in C: A Tutorial , these humble phrases were the first lines of C code in the tutorial and appeared several years before Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book based on the tutorial immortalized this pattern for students of C everywhere ( C Programming Language ).

This version of the C Hello World program is somewhat more minimalistic than its modern derivations .

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