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The first Hello World program appeared in 1972, in a book about B programming language by Brian Kernighan. B was a precursor to the C programming language The program became famous when it was included in the book ‘The C Programming Language’ in 1978 by Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Nearly 50 years ago they highlighted this timeless principle - the only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it - this advice is still relevant today. As a tradition, some Indians write ‘Om’ on the starting page of every book - similarly Hello world program has become the first example in almost every programming language is Hello World #coding #programming