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I always see it everywhere - is it just random and something that has stuck but chance? To me, its like "hello world" as in you are entering a new world of typesetting that's not WYSIWYG

user71207
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  • https://www.thesoftwareguild.com/blog/the-history-of-hello-world/#:~:text=Traditionally%2C%20Hello%20World%20programs%20are,World%20both%20easily%20and%20correctly. – js bibra Mar 21 '21 at 03:42
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/602237/where-does-hello-world-come-from – js bibra Mar 21 '21 at 03:43
  • See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Code_Contest – John Kormylo Mar 21 '21 at 16:26

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It actually predates LaTeX and goes back to Kernighan and Ritchie's C Programming Language in which the first program presented outputs the words "hello, world."

More information is available at wikipedia.

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