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 hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of
course. The standard response is Nothing happens here.
; of
all the Zork/Dungeon games, only in Infocom's Zork 3 is Hello,
Sailor
actually useful (excluding the unique situation where
_knowing_ this fact is important in Dungeon...).