Why "Hello world" ?

Question

i have always wondered why is hello world the first example for any programming language and where did it came from?

Answer 1

Brian Kernighan actually wrote the first "hello, world" program as part of the documentation for the BCPL programming language developed by Martin Richards. BCPL was used while C was being developed at Bell Labs a few years before the publication of Kernighan and Ritchie's C book in 1972.

Answer 2

It was a convention brought up in early programming days

Answer 3

Henlo you stinky world
helllo stinky world
go eat a asteroid ugly

Answer 4

i think it was the first text that has been transmitted over the arpanet the net before the internet

Answer 5

no idea where it came from, but the most basic output is printing text to a screen, therefore it ends up being the first thing taught to newcomers