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Pretty sure the "Hello, World" got its start from the first program used in "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, back in 1978. I've always pr
by floxy 4y ago
Pretty sure the "Hello, World" got its start from the first program used in "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, back in 1978. I've always presumed the foo and bar come from FUBAR[0] which seems to have originated in WWII army lingo.
[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FUBAR https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FUBAR