Hello, world!
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As described in more detail in the related Wikipedia article, Hello, world! is a classic "first program" one creates when learning a new programming language. The objective of the application is the same: to print the text "Hello, world!" to the screen in some form, be it console output or a dialog.
In many cases, the statement required to do this is a single line.
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- Casual user trying to to catch/spread the next virus
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Examples of Hello, world!
[edit | edit source]Ada
[edit | edit source] with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Hello is
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Hello, world!");
end Hello;
For an explanation see b:Ada Programming:Basic.
ASP
[edit | edit source]<%
Response.Write "Hello, world!"
%>
or
<%="Hello, World!"%>
Alef++
[edit | edit source]sub say : void {
System->out->println[ $0#0 ];
}
main{
say[Hello, world!];
}
x86 compatible for MS-DOS.
title Hello World Program
dosseg
.model small
.stack 100h
.data
hello_message db 'Hello, world!',0dh,0ah,'$'
.code
main proc
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
mov ah,9
mov dx,offset hello_message
int 21h
mov ax,4C00h
int 21h
main endp
end main
BASH
[edit | edit source]#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello, world!"
BASIC
[edit | edit source]Applesoft BASIC
[edit | edit source]Used on Apple ][ machines (Apple ][+, ][e, //c, ][GS)
10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
-or-
10 ? "HELLO, WORLD!"
Bally/Astrocade Basic
[edit | edit source]As used on the Bally and Astrocade game systems ca. 1978
10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
Commodore BASIC
[edit | edit source]As used on a Commodore 64, ca. 1984
10 ? "Hello, world!"
Dark Basic
[edit | edit source]PRINT "Hello, world!"
FreeBASIC and QuickBASIC
[edit | edit source]PRINT "Hello, world!"
SLEEP
or:
? "Hello, world!"
sleep
Intellivision Basic
[edit | edit source]As used on a Mattel Intellivision, ca. 1983
10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
Intellivision ECS Basic
[edit | edit source]As used in the Mattel Intellivision ECS
10 PRIN "HELLO, WORLD."
! not on ECS keyboard. Only 4 char. commands in ECS Basic
Liberty BASIC
[edit | edit source]print "Hello, world!"
Batch
[edit | edit source]echo Hello, world!
C
[edit | edit source]#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf( "Hello, world!\n" );
return 0;
}
C#
[edit | edit source]using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
}
}
}
C++
[edit | edit source]#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "Hello, world!\n";
return 0;
}
COBOL
[edit | edit source] IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'Hello, world'.
STOP RUN.
Common Lisp
[edit | edit source](print "Hello, world!")
Or:
(format t "Hello, world!~%")
begin
Writeln('Hello, world!');
end.
Eztrieve (IBM Mainframe programming language).
[edit | edit source]JOB NULL
DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD"
STOP
Forth
[edit | edit source]: HELLO ." Hello, world!" ;
HELLO
PROGRAM HELLO
PRINT *,'Hello, world'
STOP
END
Go
[edit | edit source]package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, World")
}
Haskell
[edit | edit source]main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn "Hello, world!"
Html
[edit | edit source]<html>
<head>
<title>Hello, world!</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hello, world!
</p>
</body>
</html>
Java
[edit | edit source]class HelloWorldApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
}
}
JavaScript (aka JScript, ECMAScript, LiveScript)
[edit | edit source]document.println("Hello, world!");
or
alert("Hello, world!");
or
document.writeln("Hello, world!");
Luka
[edit | edit source]print "Hello, world"
or, with proper syntax
print( "Hello, world!" );
MODULE Hello; IMPORT Out; PROCEDURE World*; BEGIN Out.Open; Out.String("Hello, world!"); Out.Ln; END World; END Hello.
OCaml
[edit | edit source]print_endline "Hello, world!"
program HelloWorld;
begin
writeln( 'Hello, world!' );
end.
Perl
[edit | edit source]#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, world!\n";
PHP
[edit | edit source]<?php
echo "Hello, world!";
?>
or (with short_tags enabled in php.ini)
<? echo "Hello, world!"; ?>
or (with asp_tags enabled in php.ini)
<% echo "Hello, world!"; %>
or
<?="Hello, world!"?>
With Python 2
#!/usr/bin/env python
print 'Hello, world!'
Or with Python 3
print("Hello, world!")
The first line is used on Unix systems only, and is optional even there. The advantage is that it allows the file to be invoked directly (if chmod +x
), without explicitly specifying the python
interpreter.
Ruby
[edit | edit source]puts 'Hello, world!'
Another way to do it, albeit more obscure:
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
puts 1767707668033969.to_s(36)
Tcl
[edit | edit source]#!/usr/bin/tclsh
puts "Hello, world!"
"Computer?" *Bee bee boo "Create program 'Hello, World! Picard-alpha-1'" *Boo boo bee "Parameters: Display the phrase 'Hello, world!' on the screen the program is executed from until the program is terminated." *Bee bee "Save program." *Boo bee boo
put "Hello World!"
Sub Form1_Load()
MsgBox "Hello, world!"
End Sub
Assignment
[edit | edit source]Create a Hello, world! program in a language not listed above, then edit this page and add it to the collection.
Visual Basic .NET
[edit | edit source]Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")
End Sub
End Module
C
[edit | edit source]Because the tradition of using the phrase "Hello, world!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book The C Programming Language.[1] that original example is reproduced here.
#include <stdio.h>
main( )
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}
LOLCODE
[edit | edit source] HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "Hello world!"
KTHXBYE
Natural
[edit | edit source]WRITE 'Hello, world!' END
Hello, world!
XML
[edit | edit source]<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hello>
<messagename="Hello" />
<message>
Hello, World!
</message>
</hello>
Or with attributes:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hello messagename="Hello, World!">
Hello, world!
</hello>
.TITLE HELLO WORLD
.MCALL .TTYOUT,.EXIT
HELLO:: MOV #MSG,R1 ;STARTING ADDRESS OF STRING
1$: MOVB (R1)+,R0 ;FETCH NEXT CHARACTER
BEQ DONE ;IF ZERO, EXIT LOOP
.TTYOUT ;OTHERWISE PRINT IT
BR 1$ ;REPEAT LOOP
DONE: .EXIT
MSG: .ASCIZ /Hello, world!/
.END HELLO
More about Computer Programming
[edit | edit source]See also
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Wikipedia has more about this subject: Hello world program |
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- Hello world program examples from Wikipedia (archived copy)
External links
[edit | edit source]- The Hello World Collection with 500+ Hello World programs
- ↑ Kernighan, Brian W.; w:Ritchie, Dennis M. (1978). The C Programming Language (1st ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-110163-3.