Before the 1970s, most people saw computers as complex and expensive equipment reserved for academics, defense or government work. Over the years, industry leaders worked hard to fight this stigma and prove to the general public that computers were, in fact, useful. And when PDP-11, one of the first successful commercial microcomputers launched, Hello World began to spread. Users could now “talk” directly to their new equipment using a programming language. As programmable computers became more prevalent, more people turned to Kernighan’s C Programming Language and a reintroduction to Hello World to
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