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[[Image:HelloWorld.jpg|right|frame|Hello World program in a terminal]]
[[Image:HelloWorld.jpg|right|frame|Results of executing a Hello World program in a console (apparently on a Linux or Unix system).]]


A '''Hello World''' program, as first introduced in the book ''The C Programming Language'', is a very short program that typically just prints a word or two of output to a console.  Such a program is often one of the first programs that a [[programmer]] writes when learning a [[programming language]], as it provide's a cursory introduction to the language's [[syntax]] and output.
A '''Hello World''' program, as first introduced in the book ''The C Programming Language'', is a very short program that typically just prints a word or two of output to a console.  Such a program is often one of the first programs that a [[programmer]] writes when learning a [[programming language]], as it provide's a cursory introduction to the language's [[syntax]] and output.

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Results of executing a Hello World program in a console (apparently on a Linux or Unix system).

A Hello World program, as first introduced in the book The C Programming Language, is a very short program that typically just prints a word or two of output to a console. Such a program is often one of the first programs that a programmer writes when learning a programming language, as it provide's a cursory introduction to the language's syntax and output.

See also

99 Bottles of Beer

External links

The Hello World Collection in more than 300 programming languages