Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015)

Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:12AM (#33188508)

It was definitely in the introductory BASIC teaching materials for TRS-80 and other micros.

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by jasode on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:54AM (#33189750)

>It was definitely in the introductory BASIC teaching materials for TRS-80 and other micros.

For 8-bit home computers of 1980s, I don't remember any of the official BASIC manuals that came with computer using "HELLO WORLD" in the examples. That includes Radio Shack TRS-80, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99, Atari 400/800, etc. Some cursory search of archived books seems to confirm my memory:

https://archive.org/details/Model_100_Basic_Language_Lab_198...

https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-user-guide/page/n47...

https://archive.org/details/tibook_beginners-basic/page/n9/m...

Maybe some unofficial 3rd-party BASIC guides or classes used the string "HELLO WORLD". I personally didn't see that until reading K&R C Language book. Although "Hello world" was 1974, it really didn't seem to spread into wide programming culture until 1990s.

I kind of vaguely remember some BASIC examples somewhere using 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10... but that wasn't the full "HELLO WORLD".

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by marcodiego on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:41AM (#33190198)

AFAIK the oldest reference to "Hello World!\n" (I think it was capitalized like that) was from "The C programming language" which was released in 1978. When it popularized for home computers is harder to determine.

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