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# HELLO, WORLD

In a number of recent postings to alt.folklore.computers, the answer to the question “What’s the shortest ‘Hello, World’ program for a specific language? For those that don’t know, ‘Hello, World’ is the first program used in K&R’s book on C and is synonomus with the simplest program to write as a beginner. The whole scope of the program is to print the string ‘Hello, World’.

Here is a summary of the results of the postings:

```
BASIC:
------
   10 PRINT "Hello, World"
   
FORTRAN IV:
-----------
       WRITE(6,100)
   100 FORMAT(13H Hello World!)
       ST OP
       EN
      *D
    
COBOL:
------
   IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
     PROGRAM-ID. WORLD.
   ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
   DATA DIVISION.
   PROCEDURE DIVISION.
   BOO.
        DISPLAY "Hello, world!" UPON CONSOLE.
	STOP RUN.

ADA:
----
   With STANDARD_IO;
   Use STANDARD_IO;
   Procedure HELLO_WORLD is
   begin
      Put("Hello world!");
   end HELLO_WORLD;

C:
--
   #include <stdio.h>
   main()
   {
     printf('Hello, World!");
   }

perl:
-----
   #/usr/local/bin/perl
   print "Hello, World!¥n";

Postscript:
-----------
   100 100 moveto /Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont
     (Hello, World!) show showpage

FORTH:
------
   ."Hello, World!"

Lisp:
-----
   (print "Hello, World!")
   
Smalltalk:
----------
   'Hello, World!' PrintN1 !

PILOT:
------
   10 T:Hello, World!
   
REXX:
-----
   SAY "Hello, World!"
   
Modula-2:
---------
   MODULE HelloWorld;
   IMPORT InOut;
   BEGIN
      WriteString ("Hello, World!");
      WriteLn;
   END HelloWorld.

Here is an interesting one in C.  I have not checked this
one to see if it runs under C68.

   #define _ ｨint) putchar
    main() { int c = 0110
    ;_(c);c+=29;_(c);c+=7
     ;_(c);_(c);c+=3;_(c)
     ;c=0x20;_(c);c=0127
      ;_(c);c+=24;_(c);
       c+=0x3;_(c);c-=
        6;_(c);c-=010;
	 _(c);c=0x21;
	  _(c);_(10)
	   ;c+=66;}

Nokolisp:  (which had only symbols - no character strings)
---------
   (compress (append (explode 'Hello) (cons 32 (explode
       'world.))))
```