Hello world!

Hello world?!?

You ever wonder who came up with the phrase “Hello world”?

Let’s find out shall we.

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

“..the tradition of using the phrase “Hello world!” as a test message was influenced by an example program in the book The C Programming Language. The example program from that book prints “hello, world” (without capital letters or exclamation mark), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial..”

 Yep! That’s what I thought. I first encountered that phrase more than a decade ago. And when I think of it now, all I can say is, some geek must be pretty proud of himself right now for coming up with that programming phrase.

 When you see this guy, give him a pat on the back.

So what else can I say.. “Hello world” =)