The Canon — K&R C — framed
The Hello World Collection

The Canon — K&R C

C · first edition K&R

The version that fixed the convention for half a century. Published on page 6 of the first edition of K&R, this program — pre-ANSI, no return type, no #include, lowercase greeting, no exclamation — has been retyped by more programmers than perhaps any other piece of source code in history. The default executable name a.out and the bare cc invocation place it squarely in the Unix V6/V7 era at Bell Labs.

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$169
  • Museum-grade archival matte paper, pigment ink
  • Solid wood frame, Snow White passe-partout mat, museum glass
  • Printed and finished to order — ships within 5 business days