clipka wrote:
> "Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> This may be lost on those who aren't familiar with the C programming language.
> 
> Why should that be? After all, "Hello World!" is *the* 101 cliche with *any*
> general-purpose programming language ;)

That's what I thought too. Wikipedia has something to say about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program#History

Supposedly, the earliest known usage was '72 for the programming 
language "B".

Sam

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