"Why did the ancient programmers (blessed be their names), have such a proclivity for always greeting the earth?"

It is believed that ancient computersmiths were a superstitious caste. They believed in an entity known as "World", and it was custom to greet this deity as both a recognition of its power and an invocation to receive it's divine favor. Computersmiths were also known to compose poetry documenting their capabilities. It was typical for computersmiths to update this prose, commonly referred to as a 'resume', upon successfully greeting World.

It’s surely a religious matter, the context is lost at this point but that our best estimate.

I don’t think quantum computers get you past the halting problem.

Thank you, now I feel preemtively ashamed