Talk:"Hello, World!" program/Archive 2
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Brian Kernighan an inventor of BCPL?
"This claim is supposedly supported by the archived notes of the inventors of BCPL, Brian Kernighan at Princeton and Martin Richards at Cambridge."
I don't think so. From what I can see Kernighan might have written the first "hello world" in BCPL, but BCPL was developed in UK before migrating to US where Kernighan came across it.
Maybe someone can produce documentary evidence, but I have not seen it in any BCPL documentation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ian.joyner (talk • contribs) 10:18, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
- According to https://ozanerhansha.medium.com/on-the-origin-of-hello-world-61bfe98196d5
- Unsure myself of whether the first documented use of “Hello, World!” was in BCPL or B, I emailed Prof. Kernighan and he confirmed it:
- I have never written a line of BCPL, so I definitely never wrote a hello world example for BCPL documentation. As best I can recall, the original example was for the internal B manual that I wrote at Bell Labs…
- I'll delete the Kernighan reference to BCPL. I suggest it is only reinstated if someone can provide any evidence that Kernighan had anything to do with the design of BCPL. Ian.joyner (talk) 02:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)