How many different "Hello, Worlds" can we come up with? Add Answer

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Okay, fellow nerds. Typically when we tackle the learning curve of a new computer language, our first experiment will be to get it to squawk some output back to us. Just any old meaningless string will do, such as "Hello, World." Tutorials often begin with this coding challenge. On the web, I have occasionally run across collections of "Hello World" code in various computer languages. I saw one clever example which embedded six different languages within the comment tags of each other, and claimed to be executable in any of those languages. I thought it might be neat to assemble a collection of "Hello, World" examples here on Modwest, just to see all the different computer languages that we know.

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PHP

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print "hello world!";

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JavaScript

document.write("Hello World!");

Or, to say it in a dialog box alert:

alert("Hello World!");

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Bash

echo "Hello world"
or
printf "Hello world\n"

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LOLCODE

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE

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Lisp

(DEFUN HELLO ()
"HELLO WORLD"
)

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Brainfuck (pardon my French)

I confess, I stole this from wikipedia:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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Perl

print "Hello, World";

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Hi y'all

Oh, I forgot the apostrophe just screws up the programming.

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Forth

: HELLO ." Hello, world." ;
ok
HELLO
Hello world. ok

Forth is an early stack-machine language used in many embedded applications in the early days of microprocessors. It was a complete computing system: interpreter, compiler, and operating system.

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Ruby

puts "Hello, World!"

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421

http://helloworldsite.he.funpic.de/ The Hello World Collection.

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C

int main() { printf("Hello world\n"); }

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CPP

I.e., C++, but C++ is detected as a duplicate answer because of C.
#include
int main() { std::cout << "Hello world\n"; }

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squiggle squiggle: 719 points   5 months ago

It's remarkable how some people still contribute, even after they've all been listed and the topic rendered mute http://community.modwest.com/answer/398/421

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