meaning of hello sailor
1. hello, sailor! Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello, world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor". Originally from the traditional hookers greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course. [Jargon File] hello, world The canonical minimal test message in the C/Unix universe or any of the minimal programs that emit this message. Traditionally, the first program a C coder writes in a new environment is one that just prints "hello, world" to standard output and indeed it is the first example program in K&R. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad see X. HELP 1.
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