Hello, world!

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]

Ada [edit]

 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]

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

or

<%="Hello, World!"%>

Alef++ [edit]

sub say : void {
        System->out->println[ $0#0 ];
}
 
main{
     say[Hello, world!];
}

Assembly [edit]

x86 compatible

 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]

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

BASIC [edit]

Applesoft BASIC [edit]

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

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"

-or-

10 ? "HELLO, WORLD!"

Bally/Astrocade Basic [edit]

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

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"

Commodore BASIC [edit]

As used on a Commodore 64, ca. 1984

10 ? "Hello, world!"

Dark Basic [edit]

PRINT "Hello, world!"

FreeBASIC and QuickBASIC [edit]

PRINT "Hello, world!"
SLEEP

or:

? "Hello, world!"
SLEEP

Intellivision Basic [edit]

As used on a Mattel Intellivision, ca. 1983

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"

Intellivision ECS Basic [edit]

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]

PRINT "Hello, world!"

Batch [edit]

@ECHO OFF
echo Hello, World!

C [edit]

#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;
}

COBOL [edit]

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

Common Lisp [edit]

(print "Hello, world!")

Or:

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

Delphi [edit]

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

Eztrieve (IBM Mainframe programming language). [edit]

JOB NULL

DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD"

STOP

Forth [edit]

: HELLO    ." Hello, world!"  ;
HELLO

Fortran [edit]

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

Haskell [edit]

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

Html [edit]

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

Java [edit]

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!");

Luka [edit]

print "Hello, world"

or, with proper syntax

print( "Hello, world!" );

Oberon [edit]

MODULE Hello;

   IMPORT Out;

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

END Hello.

OCaml [edit]

print_endline "Hello, world!"

Pascal [edit]

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

Perl [edit]

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

PHP [edit]

<?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!"?>

Python [edit]

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]

puts 'Hello, world!'

Another way to do it, albeit more obscure:

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

Tcl [edit]

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

Trekkie [edit]

"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

Turing [edit]

put "Hello World!"

Visual Basic 6 [edit]

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

Assignment [edit]

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]

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

LOLCODE [edit]

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

Natural [edit]

WRITE 'Hello, world!'
END

Hello, world!

XML [edit]

<?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-11 [edit]

        .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]

Topic:Computer Programming

External links [edit]

The Hello World Collection

Hello, world!

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Examples of Hello, world! [edit]

Ada [edit]

ASP [edit]

Alef++ [edit]

Assembly [edit]

BASH [edit]

BASIC [edit]

Applesoft BASIC [edit]

Bally/Astrocade Basic [edit]

Commodore BASIC [edit]

Dark Basic [edit]

FreeBASIC and QuickBASIC [edit]

Intellivision Basic [edit]

Intellivision ECS Basic [edit]

Liberty BASIC [edit]

Batch [edit]

C [edit]

C# [edit]

C++ [edit]

COBOL [edit]

Common Lisp [edit]

Delphi [edit]

Eztrieve (IBM Mainframe programming language). [edit]

Forth [edit]

Fortran [edit]

Haskell [edit]

Html [edit]

Java [edit]

JavaScript (aka JScript, ECMAScript, LiveScript) [edit]

Luka [edit]

Oberon [edit]

OCaml [edit]

Pascal [edit]

Perl [edit]

PHP [edit]

Python [edit]

Ruby [edit]

Tcl [edit]

Trekkie [edit]

Turing [edit]

Visual Basic 6 [edit]

Assignment [edit]

Visual Basic .NET [edit]

LOLCODE [edit]

Natural [edit]

XML [edit]

MACRO-11 [edit]

More about Computer Programming [edit]

See also [edit]

External links [edit]

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