Shameful Secrets

How many people bloggers know where that comes from, I wonder???

Personally, I found it very amusing when I realized that most blogging programs generate a ‘Hello World’ post to get you started. It’s not that it’s origins are particularly mysterious (they aren’t) however, bloggers as a group didn’t seem like those to be ‘in the know’ on this particular subject. So, I asked a blogger friend if she knew where the term came from. She said: ” I feel like I should, but can’t remember… a movie, maybe?”

A good guess, but not so much.

“Hello World”, or as I learned it “Hello, World” is what one usually writes as a first program when learning a new programming language. In my case it was initially BASIC and later C++. There’s an interesting and brief rundown on the subject, along with examples of the program written in various languages at The Hello World Collection for anyone curious.