Hello, World! — The Universal Greeting

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Hello, World!

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The greeting that started a million coding journeys

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"Hello, World!" entered programming lore in 1974, when Brian Kernighan used it as the very first example in a Bell Labs C tutorial. Every language on this page pays homage to that tiny tradition.