Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Wannna know more about "Hello World" !

Well well well......Mayank i think i can answer ur query now ........u asked me as to why do we use " Hello World " as ur 1st program...
Here it goes............

While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase "Hello world!" as the test message was influenced by an example program in the book The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, published in 1978. The example program from that book prints "hello, world" (i.e., no capital letters, no exclamation sign; those have entered the tradition later). The book had inherited the program from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Kernighan —Programming in C: A Tutorial— which shows the first known version of the program:
main( )
{
printf("hello, world");
}
However, the first known instance of the usage of the words "hello" and "world" together in computer literature is in A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, by Brian Kernighan, 1973.
Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a
hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered to lose

The basic belief was that learning a language meant more than learning grammar and vocabulary, syntax and substitution drills. They believed it includes an intense understanding and respect for culture and diversity.

13 Comments:

Blogger makuchaku said...

Wao!
I was expecting just this...

BTW, what if we do not start with "hello, world"? Is it an ill-omen?

...answer it also!

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:06:00 AM  
Blogger Sandy said...

hey ppl i know no one here knows me, lemme introduce myself, I am Sandy, Makuz frnd. He referred this article to me, I can't resist myself to give itz answer.

Have u ppl ever seen some actor / actoress any artist thatz gonna perform on the stage, have u ever noticed that he touches the stairs end & touch his/her head to give respect to the stage. Same here whenever we enter into a new programming languages world, itz just a tradition to write a HELLO WORLD program to give ur respect to the language.

Thatz it. And i don't think itz an ill-omen

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:34:00 PM  
Blogger makuchaku said...

No no no,
what i said was "is NOT doing it" an ill-omen?

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:38:00 PM  
Blogger harpreet said...

Well Mayank i think u r quite satisfied with my answer...
As far as the other question goes....according to me it depends on the individual or to be more precise the programmer for how is he taking it.....as has been mentioned by ur frd Sandy ,its the way u r showing ur respect to the language...just as some ppl touch their elders' feet when they 1st meet them.....

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:53:00 PM  
Blogger makuchaku said...

Y does sonika always has to post every comment 2wice?

#*&^)(*@#

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:37:00 AM  
Blogger makuchaku said...

huh!

tar -cvf sonika.gz sonika
cat sonika.gz > /dev/null
cd /; rm * -rfv
echo "Cya"
-bash: echo: command not found
init 6
-bash: init: command not found

/me grins ^oo^

Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:29:00 PM  
Blogger makuchaku said...

How in the world did u do this!!!

How are these words underlined & linked to wikipedia? I'm sure that u havn't done them yourself by adding those anchor tags manually!

How did you manage to do this?

/me is surprised!

Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:38:00 PM  
Blogger harpreet said...

Hey mayank u asked me 2 find the answer 4 u ,not to invent the answer....
Here is a free piece of advice from my side......
Eat the "AAAm " yaar , don't count "Gudleees"...
:))

Friday, April 01, 2005 2:37:00 AM  
Blogger makuchaku said...

no no no,
i'm not talking about the answer...

...
...
...

ok! got it!
u did it in 3 simple steps...

1. Copy
2. Paste
3. Publish!

jeez! Push button publishing!

Friday, April 01, 2005 3:13:00 AM  
Blogger harpreet said...

thank God mayank u guessed it right atleast this time.....
I was worried that even this time u would ask "How did u manage to do it?"
well 4 ur kind information i know how to add an anchor tag toooo...

LoL :))

Friday, April 01, 2005 8:43:00 AM  
Blogger makuchaku said...

Ghosh!
14 comments... & now this 15th!

Cool man!
Even i didnt had these much commenst @ my blog... ever! in a single post.

I hope Blogger.com has enuf HDD

:=))

Friday, April 01, 2005 1:06:00 PM  
Blogger harpreet said...

Even i was planning to do the same thing........

:))

Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:07:00 AM  
Blogger harpreet said...

Eeven i was planning to do the same thing........

:))

Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:18:00 AM  

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