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Windows Azure Services – Exercise 1 - The Very Beginning – The Infamous Hello World
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:28:56 PM GMT Monday, January 19, 2009 1:02:19 AM GMT
Windows Azure Services – Exercise 1 - The Very Beginning – The Infamous Hello World

Hello World

How many of us started learning something with the "Hello World" example. We've seen "Hello World" travel from a console application to a GUI. Now it's in the cloud.

History

While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase "Hello world!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal 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, which contains the first known version:

main() {

printf("hello, world");

}

I learned programming from this very book so I will use all lower caps with a comma.

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tags: Azure, Web Services