Hello world!

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Author

Lesley Duff

Published

14 April 2025

Modified

16 April 2025

Keywords

hello world

Hello world! is a venerable tradition honoured by ancient developers like myself.

“Back in the day” saying hello was the first piece of text you would print on the screen each time you tested a new developer environment. Then the web came along and we really could speak to the world. Has fallen out of fashion but I like to honour what the late Terry Wogan called “the old decencies”.

Don’t neglect humanity.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{duff2025,
  author = {Duff, Lesley},
  title = {Hello World!},
  date = {2025-04-14},
  url = {https://www.dataquine.dev/blog/2025/04/14/hello-world/},
  langid = {en-GB}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Duff, Lesley. 2025. “Hello World!” April 14, 2025. https://www.dataquine.dev/blog/2025/04/14/hello-world/.