Computer program (nonfiction)

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"hello world" computer program from 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial, which contains the first known version of hello world.

A computer program, or just a program, is a sequence of instructions, written to perform a specified task, or automate the solution to a problem, on a computer.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Computation (nonfiction)
• Computer science (nonfiction)
• Program optimization (nonfiction)

External links:

• Computer program @ Wikipedia

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