"Hello World"

Since I don't trust wikipedia, I'm going to ask here.

Where did Helloworld first come form? Why is it used as an example?

 

It's a basic msg command, It can't do shit besides paste something into the console, Learn LUA.

 

He's asking about the history. Also, it's not a command, it's a string of characters.

Anyway, I'd trust Wikipedia on the matter. There's a reason they have references at the bottom.



Relevant sources:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ctut.pdf
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/scbref.pdf






It's used as an example because it's friendly, simple, and a greetings to the world of programming.

 

Are you serious just use wikipedia

Your english teacher is a fucking lier

 

much obliged guy.

now i can write a paper

(kuro pls dont dmca me for writing paper)

 

I broke this script many, many times.

 

I can barely do this, yet I can make SWEPs. This confused me alot. lol

 

What can't you understand?

Also, SWEPs aren't hard to make.

 

Exactly. Lol.

 

What don't you understand about a Hello World program?

something

Code:

io.write("Hello, World!")

C++

Code:

int main(){
  std::cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;
  return 0;
}

Python 3

Code:

print("Hello, world!")

Python 1,2 .. Perl .. a lot of other languages (Lua too iirc)

yeah, lua too

Code:

print "Hello, world!"

Brainfuck

Code:

[-]>[-]<
>++++++++[<++++++++>-]<++++++++.
>+++++[<+++++>-]<++++.
>+++[<+++>-]<--.
.
+++.
>++++++++[<-------->-]<---.
>+++[<--->-]<---.
>+++++++++[<+++++++++>-]<++++++.
>+++[<--->-]<+.
+++.
>++[<-->-]<--.
>+++[<--->-]<+.
>++++++++[<-------->-]<---.

Haskell

Code:

module Main
  where
main = putStrLn "Hello, world!"

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

When the first Unix OS was shown to the public, they made it print "hello, world".
I assume that's mainly where it got its popularity from.