It would be pretty cool to put stuff like this together in a kind of an online code museum.
Re:Larry Page's Java question – 1996
by josephcooney on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:17PM
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A while ago I tried to track down the initial check-in comments for a number of open source projects, with mixed results.
http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f...
The Go one is particularly interesting.
What is particularly interesting about "hello, world"?
I am reminded of Linus's announcement of Linux:
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, as they say.