Cousin Ricky wrote:
> This may be lost on those who aren't familiar with the C programming language.
> 
As others have already pointed out, this is not unique to the C 
language.  Although the example in the original K&R "C Programming 
Language" book is said to the the first.

Here are a couple sites with "Hello, world" in hundreds of different 
languages:
www.scriptol.com/programming/hello-world.php
helloworld.googletoad.com/

And for real fun, check out:
www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/helloworld.html

(I found the first list by a link in the Wikipedia article, and the 
second list and the 'jokes' by googling for "hello world".)

Another somewhat amusing version is from GNU.  Although this has the 
serious intent of being an example of the programming standards for GNU 
programs -- among other things, this version has command-line switches 
and even man and info pages!  (I compiled it once some time ago out of 
curiosity.)
www.gnu.org/software/hello/

      -=- Larry -=-

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