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Mysterious? Nonsense! Anyone over the age of 12 knows what "hello, sailor" means, and it's not the first or second of your "possible origins." --Russ Blau (talk) 10:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I and others at Burroughs Machines in the 1970s used the "hello sailor number" of a programming language as an indication of the language's verbosity. The HSN was the number of significant characters required to display "Hello Sailor" on the terminal. eg: Basic = PRINT "HELLO SAILOR" = 19 (the space between 'print' and '"' is not required)
I've continued to use it in preference to the upstart 'Hello World' ever since.
Bobstammers 20:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
A recent edit made the article much more Zork-centered by placing the general statement down at the bottom. I think that this phrase has far more cultural relevance outside of the Zork games. Sure, it's a running gag in the games, but the phrase is far more widely known among people who have never even heard of, let alone played them. Rather than just revert it, I thought I'd let others discuss, but it just seems to me that the Zork portion of this article should be toned down a bit. I also think the Zork sidebar really doesn't need to be there, it's just a running gag in the games, not a major game-element. If anything, the Zork stuff should be in a separate lower sub-section, rather than the general reference. Lurlock 04:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Unsure if it has any relevance but I think I saw a pic where Amy Winehouse has a tattoo with this phrase on her belly.92.81.73.3 (talk) 19:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)