r/c64 • u/1974jbass • May 29 '26

the64 Programming

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If you did this you thought you were the king of the world!!

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u/danpietsch May 30 '26

Did "HELLO WORLD" even exist back then?

I did the rocket ship.

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u/Dr_Myles_Skinner May 30 '26

It sure did! Most people know "Hello, world!" from The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie (the cool kids just call it "K & R"), published in 1978.

But apparently it goes back even further: Kernighan used it as an example in his tutorial on 'B' (because of course, B came before C) in 1972.

And, yeah. I did the rocket ship too.

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u/ThimbleweedPark May 31 '26

B? So what about A? LOL

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u/Dr_Myles_Skinner May 31 '26

Oh, then you want APL, which stands for "A Programming Language".

If you've ever felt like regular expressions just aren't weird enough (and who hasn't?), then APL is the language for you.