Which programming language first introduced 'Hello World'

Question

Which programming language first introduced 'Hello World' as a first program to code for beginners?

• Darknight: On an related question, the first programming language that introduced "Good bye cruel World" was Java ;) (I'm kidding)
• Pheonix: How does this question contribute anything or is use full ? and How does it shows "research efforts" when clearly answers cite wikipedia ?

Answer 1

The history section of the Wikipedia article indicates it came from C.

...the tradition of using the phrase "Hello, world!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book The C Programming Language. The example program from that book prints "hello, world" (without capital letters or exclamation mark), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial...

• TeaDrinkingGeek: Had a feeling it might have been C. ;)
• Ranger: +1 for Wikipedia's content, but i always believe "Hello World" was author's (Programming authors) stuff rather than any language's specific.
• Ranger: :P same article says "Hello World" was first used in B in 1972 rather than C 1974.
• Jason S: B and C aren't different versions of the same language; C was a new language based on B.
• greyfade: It originated in Kernighan's B tutorial.

Answer 2

The convention was introduced for the general public in K&R - Kernigan and Richie: The C Programming Language - which is the canonical introduction to C. That book became the canonical because it was succinct reflecting in its thinness.

The updated version covering ANSI C is worth reading simply for their approach to writing documentation.