Hello, world!

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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Examples of Hello, world!Edit

AdaEdit

 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.

ASPEdit

<%
    Response.Write "Hello, world!"
%>

or

<%="Hello, World!"%>

Alef++Edit

sub say : void {
	System->out->println[ $0#0 ];
}

main{
     say[Hello, world!];
}

AssemblyEdit

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

BASHEdit

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello, world!"

BASICEdit

Applesoft BASICEdit

Used on Apple ][ machines (Apple ][+, ][e, //c, ][GS)

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"

-or-

10 ? "HELLO, WORLD!"

Bally/Astrocade BasicEdit

As used on the Bally and Astrocade game systems ca. 1978

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"

Commodore BASICEdit

As used on a Commodore 64, ca. 1984

10 ? "Hello, world!"

Dark BasicEdit

PRINT "Hello, world!"

FreeBASIC and QuickBASICEdit

PRINT "Hello, world!"
SLEEP

or:

? "Hello, world!"
sleep

Intellivision BasicEdit

As used on a Mattel Intellivision, ca. 1983

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"

Intellivision ECS BasicEdit

As used in the Mattel Intellivision ECS

10 PRIN "HELLO, WORLD."

! not on ECS keyboard. Only 4 char. commands in ECS Basic

Liberty BASICEdit

print "Hello, world!"

BatchEdit

echo Hello, world!

CEdit

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) 
{
  printf( "Hello, world!\n" );
  return 0;
}

C#Edit

using System;

namespace HelloWorld
{
  class Program 
  {
    static void Main() 
    {
      Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
    }
  }
}

C++Edit

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  cout << "Hello, world!\n";
  return 0;
}

COBOLEdit

      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
      PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
          DISPLAY 'Hello, world'.
          STOP RUN.

Common LispEdit

(print "Hello, world!")

Or:

(format t "Hello, world!~%")

DelphiEdit

begin
  Writeln('Hello, world!');
end.

Eztrieve (IBM Mainframe programming language).Edit

JOB NULL

DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD"

STOP

ForthEdit

: HELLO    ." Hello, world!"  ;
HELLO

FortranEdit

    PROGRAM HELLO
    PRINT *,'Hello, world'
    STOP
    END

GoEdit

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello, World")
}

HaskellEdit

main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn "Hello, world!"

HtmlEdit

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello, world!</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hello, world!
</p>
</body>
</html>

JavaEdit

class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
    }
}

JavaScript (aka JScript, ECMAScript, LiveScript)Edit

document.println("Hello, world!");

or

alert("Hello, world!");

or

document.writeln("Hello, world!");

LukaEdit

print "Hello, world"

or, with proper syntax

print( "Hello, world!" );

OberonEdit

MODULE Hello;

   IMPORT Out;

   PROCEDURE World*;
   BEGIN
      Out.Open;
      Out.String("Hello, world!"); Out.Ln;
   END World;

END Hello.

OCamlEdit

print_endline "Hello, world!"

PascalEdit

program HelloWorld;
begin
  writeln( 'Hello, world!' );
end.

PerlEdit

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, world!\n";

PHPEdit

<?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!"?>

PythonEdit

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.

RubyEdit

puts 'Hello, world!'

Another way to do it, albeit more obscure:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
puts 1767707668033969.to_s(36)

TclEdit

#!/usr/bin/tclsh
puts "Hello, world!"

TrekkieEdit

"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

TuringEdit

put "Hello World!"

Visual Basic 6Edit

Sub Form1_Load()
    MsgBox "Hello, world!"
End Sub

AssignmentEdit

Create a Hello, world! program in a language not listed above, then edit this page and add it to the collection.

Visual Basic .NETEdit

Module Module1
 
    Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")
    End Sub
 
End Module

CEdit

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");
}

LOLCODEEdit

 HAI
 CAN HAS STDIO?
 VISIBLE "Hello world!"
 KTHXBYE

Natural Edit

WRITE 'Hello, world!'
END

Hello, world!

XMLEdit

<?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>

MACRO-11Edit

        .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 ProgrammingEdit

Topic:Computer Programming

External linksEdit

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.

[1] Kernighan, Brian W.; w:Ritchie, Dennis M. (1978). The C Programming Language (1st ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-110163-3.

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Hello, world!

Examples of Hello, world!Edit

ASPEdit

Alef++Edit

BASHEdit

BASICEdit

Applesoft BASICEdit

Bally/Astrocade BasicEdit

Commodore BASICEdit

Dark BasicEdit

FreeBASIC and QuickBASICEdit

Intellivision BasicEdit

Intellivision ECS BasicEdit

Liberty BASICEdit

BatchEdit

COBOLEdit

Common LispEdit

Eztrieve (IBM Mainframe programming language).Edit

HaskellEdit

JavaScript (aka JScript, ECMAScript, LiveScript)Edit

AssignmentEdit

Visual Basic .NETEdit

CEdit

LOLCODEEdit

Natural Edit

XMLEdit

More about Computer ProgrammingEdit

See alsoEdit

External linksEdit