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[[File:Hello_world_c.svg|250px|thumb|"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.
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.


== In the News ==
== In the News ==


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==
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* [[Computation (nonfiction)]]
* [[Computation (nonfiction)]]
* [[Computer science (nonfiction)]]
* [[Computer science (nonfiction)]]
* [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)]]
* [[Program optimization (nonfiction)]]
* [[Program optimization (nonfiction)]]



Revision as of 05:55, 23 August 2016

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.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

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