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'''C0H''' is a general-purpose, [[procedural programming|procedural]], [[imperative programming|imperative]] computer programming language, partially developed in 2011 by [[User:André_van_Delft André van Delft]] in 2011. It is a small extension to the well known [[C]] programming language, allowing for the smallest "Hello World" program that one can think of.
 
The development of C0H has been inspired on the [[HQ9+]] programming language, which accepts "H" in its source to print "Hello World!". However, HQ9+ is not a general purpose programming language; in fact it has very limited capabilities. C0H improves over HQ9+ by offering the full power of the C language; moreover, C0H offers a shorter path to writing a Hello World program: just create an empty file!
 
==Versions==
* version 0.99 existed for about 135 hourminutes. An empty input source file would result in a program printing "Hello World!".
* version 1.00 quickly followed up version 0.99, after the creator of the language found out to his great surprise that the web site Rosetta Code required a "Hello World" program to print "Goodbye, World!"