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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.
[[File:Hello, world in C.svg|thumb|C-language "Hello, World" source code. This first known "Hello, world" snippet from the seminal book ''The C Programming Language'' originates from Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie in 1974.]]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 (nonfiction)|computer]].
 
See [[Computer algorithm (nonfiction)]].


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== In the News ==


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== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


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* [[Computer algorithm (nonfiction)]]
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program Computer program] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program Computer program] @ Wikipedia
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Latest revision as of 15:33, 16 December 2017

C-language "Hello, World" source code. This first known "Hello, world" snippet from the seminal book The C Programming Language originates from Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie in 1974.

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.

See Computer algorithm (nonfiction).

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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