Hello World

Most books, tutorials or papers introducing a new programming language starting with a simple Hello-World example. If you do some research about the origins of Hello World, you’ll find that it was first used 1973 in the article “A Tutorial Introduction to the Programming Language B” ¹ by Brian W. Kerninghan.

Inspired by this, I want to list a Hello World example for any programming language I have had contact with.

The list of examples is by far not complete, because there are so many programming languages out there. But I was surprised by the amount of how many languages I had touched in my career til today.

Let’s start:

ABAP

awk

Batch

Bash

C

C++

C#

CoffeeScript

Groovy

Java

JavaScript

Kotlin

Pascal

Perl

PHP

Prolog

Python

Ruby

Rust

Swift

TypeScript

Visual Basic

For every language with a given source, I couldn’t remember how to write the Hello World example, so I looked it up.

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