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The '''Trabb Pardo–Knuth algorithm''' is a [[computer program|program]] introduced by [[Donald Knuth]] and [[Luis Trabb Pardo]] to illustrate the evolution of computer [[programming language]]s.

In their 1977 work "The Early Development of Programming Languages", Trabb Pardo and Knuth introduced a trivial program whichthat involved [[Array data structure|arrays]], indexing, mathematical [[Function (mathematics)|function]]s, [[subroutine]]s, [[I/O]], [[conditional (programming)|conditional]]s and [[iteration]]. They then wrote implementations of the algorithm in several early programming languages to show how such concepts were expressed.

The simpler [[Hello world program]] has been used for much the same purpose.