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What happens when you run 'Hello, world'

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What happens when you run 'Hello, world'

So today I experimented with a new way of learning - I wanted to understand what happens when I run a "hello world" program, but I wasn't at Hacker School. So I wrote down my current understanding and a bunch of questions and asked Twitter! if anyone has too much time and operating system knowledge, I'd love comments and "well, actually"s on https://t.co/YqSyV5ap4Q - Julia Evans (@b0rk) November 28, 2013 People left me tons of helpful comments in the gist , which made me really happy. I'm not going to reprise all of the discussion here, but here's an incomplete summary of what needs to happen

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