Where does the "Hello World!" example come from?

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Published on 2010-06-04T06:43:36Z Indexed on 2010/06/04 6:49 UTC
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"Hello world!" is the most commonly used example I can think of, yet I don't really know where it came from. Was it used by some particular book, or did it just spread among developers? Did people write "Hello world!" snippets in COBOL or FORTRAN ?

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