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Nowadays, being able to type well is a vital skill for just about everybody. If you use the internet, you need to be able to type (to a certain extent, at least) to do nearly anything — post on forums, participate in IRC chats, even just enter search terms for Google. Consequently, since you’re reading this website, you probably have acquired some typing skills already. But if you’re among those who wish to improve their current typing speed, or learn a different keyboard layout (like me), then Klavaro will prove quite useful.

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It has long been a tradition to begin programming books with a simple program that prints the words “Hello, World!” to the screen. Among those who write programming books, at least.

Brian Kernighan seems to have been the history-making person who wrote the very first ‘hello’ program. His original masterpiece appeared in a Bell Labs Tech Report, entitled The Programming Language B, in 1973. He later went on to co-write the first book on the C programming language (which was given the very clever title The C Programming Language), which included another such program, and things took off from there.

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