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"Hello, World!" but in 30 different languages!!!

Muhimen on May 01, 2020

Since the last week, I was scratching my head to figure out what post can I write in dev? I wanted it to be meaningful so that it can be useful for...

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Arol • May 1 '20

What about "Chicken"?
Chicken is an esoteric programming language in which "chicken" is the only valid symbol.

Here is Hello World in chicken and It's true:
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Muhimen • May 2 '20

SERIOUSLY?!

Habdul Hazeez • May 2 '20

I thought the same!

JoelBonetR 🥇 • May 5 '20

And what about Cow, intercal, whitespace, chef, Brainfuck or Malbolge?

It seems that bored people has no limits LoL

David Wickes • May 2 '20

Thirty languages, and not a single Lisp? For shame. Three off the top of my head:

Scheme

(display "Hello, world")

Common Lisp

(princ "Hello, world")

Clojure

(print "Hello, world")

Lud • May 4 '20

What about SmallTalk then^^?

Transcript show: 'Hello, world!'.

Muhimen • May 2 '20

My lord! I beg pardon! 🥺

Mohammed Ismail Ansari • May 4 '20

That was the first thing I looked and didn't find.

Samuele Zanca • May 5 '20 • Edited

Heres Hello world in Whitespace:

source: github.com/rdebath/whitespace

edit: sadly I think dev.to's markdown based posts & commends doesn't like whitespace-lang

Muhimen • May 5 '20

Who said Java is a hard language to learn?

Samuele Zanca • May 19 '20

Java is quite easy xD

NexWebSites • May 4 '20

;Don't forget Assembly Language:
section .text
global _start

_start:

mov edx, len

mov ecx, msg

mov ebx, 1

mov eax, 4

int 0x80

mov eax, 1

int 0x80

section .data
msg db 'Hello, world!',0xa
len equ $ - msg

James McPherson • May 4 '20

For completeness one should mention that this example is x86 assembler (not even amd64!), and for extra credit how about ARMv7, SPARC and POWER versions too? :p

NexWebSites • May 4 '20 • Edited

Yes, thought it would be better to start with the basics.

global _start
section .text
_start:
mov rdi,1

mov rsi,hello_world

mov rdx,hello_world_size

mov rax,1

syscall
mov rdi,0

mov rax,60

syscall

hello_world: db "Hello, world!",10
hello_world_size EQU $ - hello_world

NexWebSites • May 5 '20 • Edited

How about one for Windows 64?

extrn ExitProcess: PROC
extrn MessageBoxA: PROC

.data
caption db 'Windows 64-bit hello!', 0
message db 'Hello, world!', 0

.code

Start PROC
sub rsp,28h

mov rcx, 0

lea rdx, message
lea r8, caption
mov r9d, 0

call MessageBoxA
mov ecx, eax

call ExitProcess
Start ENDP
End

Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos • May 2 '20 • Edited

Hello @muhimen123 , in Go(lang) you can reduce the loc. import "fmt" is not required, you could just use the print/println as you do with the rest of the hello-worlds. You can replace the code snippet with:

package main 
func main() { 
    println("Hello, World!") 
}

Good article though :) It was fun, reminds me old times

Muhimen • May 2 '20

Thanks. Changing the code right now!

Oliver Leaver-Smith • May 5 '20

@muhimen123 you need to change the fmt.Println line to just println, as you are still trying to use fmt, but not importing it any more

Muhimen • May 5 '20

Something like this?

package main 
func main() { 
    println("Hello, World!") 
}

Oliver Leaver-Smith • May 5 '20

Yep, perfect

Peter Gloor • May 5 '20

But remember, according to the documentation print() and println() are built-in functions for bootstrapping and not guaranteed to stay in the language.

Loralighte • May 2 '20

Although I love this, my Fibonacci Project that I worked on with several other people to get currently 60 languages, I also made sure for more fair comparisons to keep them roughly the same. 60 was a lot too lol.

Muhimen • May 2 '20

Frankly speaking, when I first thought about this post I wanted to write 100 languages. But due to my SUPER procrastinations, I wasn't getting any progress after 30 languages. So I just hit the publish button!

Loralighte • May 2 '20

Fair Enough

Yevhen Fabizhevskyi • May 6 '20

Shakespeare

The Infamous Hello World Program.

Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.
Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.
Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.
Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.


                    Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery.

                    Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.

[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]

Hamlet:
 You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward!
 You are as stupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave
 hero and thyself! Speak your mind!

 You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dusty
 old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer's
 day. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of the
 sweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!

 You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the difference
 between a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.

 Speak your mind!

[Exit Romeo]

                    Scene II: The praising of Juliet.

[Enter Juliet]

Hamlet:
 Thou art as sweet as the sum of the sum of Romeo and his horse and his
 black cat! Speak thy mind!

[Exit Juliet]

                    Scene III: The praising of Ophelia.

[Enter Ophelia]

Hamlet:
 Thou art as lovely as the product of a large rural town and my amazing
 bottomless embroidered purse. Speak thy mind!

 Thou art as loving as the product of the bluest clearest sweetest sky
 and the sum of a squirrel and a white horse. Thou art as beautiful as
 the difference between Juliet and thyself. Speak thy mind!

[Exeunt Ophelia and Hamlet]


                    Act II: Behind Hamlet's back.

                    Scene I: Romeo and Juliet's conversation.

[Enter Romeo and Juliet]

Romeo:
 Speak your mind. You are as worried as the sum of yourself and the
 difference between my small smooth hamster and my nose. Speak your
 mind!

Juliet:
 Speak YOUR mind! You are as bad as Hamlet! You are as small as the
 difference between the square of the difference between my little pony
 and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little
 codpiece. Speak your mind!

[Exit Romeo]

                    Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.

[Enter Ophelia]

Juliet:
 Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum of a small
 furry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!

Ophelia:
 Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo and twice the
 difference between a mistletoe and an oozing infected blister! Speak
 your mind!

[Exeunt]

VSymonenko • May 5 '20

Q#:

namespace HelloWorld {
    open Microsoft.Quantum.Intrinsic;
    open Microsoft.Quantum.Canon;

    operation SayHello() : Result {
        Message("Hello from quantum world!");
        return Zero;
    }
}

Yufan Lou • May 5 '20

Y'all please just join and contribute to Rosetta Code.

Rosetta Code currently has 1,017 tasks, 229 draft tasks, and is aware of 785 languages, though we do not (and cannot) have solutions to every task in every language.

Adrien Gallouët • May 2 '20 • Edited

Hello!
Below, the hfuck version:

$ ./h hhh hhh hhhh hhh hhhh hhhh h hhhhhhh h hhhhhhh hhhh h hh hhh hhh hhh hh hhh hh hhh hh hhh hhhh hhhh hhhh hhhhhhhh hh hhhhhhhh hhhh hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh hhhh h h h h h h hhhhh hhhh hhhh hhh hhhhh hhhhh hhhh hhhh hhhhh hhhh h hhhhh hh hh hhhhh hh hh hhhhh hhhh hhhh hhhh hhhhh h h h hhhhh hh hh hhhhh hh hh hhh hhhhh hhhh hhhh hhhh h hhhhh
Hello, World!

source: github.com/angt/hfuck

Luiz "Bills" • May 6 '20 • Edited

PHP

<?= 'Hello, world!' ?>

JASS (language used in Warcraft III mods)

function InitTrig_Main takes nothing returns nothing
    call BJDebugMsg("Hello World")
endfunction

Gracrys • May 1 '20

Haskell one is wrong

is using the repl. And is not even printing a thing

Haskell would be Main = print "Hello world"

Madeline Trotter • May 4 '20

This isn't valid file or repl syntax.

For the repl:

putStrLn "Hello world"

For a .hs file:

module Main where

main = putStrLn "Hello world"

(function definitions are lower case, types and modules are capitalized)

Craig McIlwrath • May 2 '20

putStrLn would probably be better for this, so it doesn't display the quotes

Muhimen • May 2 '20

Bug in the post 🙄. Fixing it right now!

Madeline Trotter • May 4 '20

I'm not sure what it used to be, but this update isn't right. Here are two valid definitions: dev.to/spicydonuts/comment/ofod

Michael S. Mikowski • May 4 '20 • Edited

Perl doesn't need use strict or use warnings for this trivial example. Why are you making it needlessly verbose? Using the same logic shouldn't we also use set -u and set -e in bash? Btw, fun post. Just trying to be fair.

Harsh Rathod • Oct 10 '21

Racket

#lang racket
"Hello, world!"

Beef

using System;
class Hello {
  static void Main() {
    Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
  }
}

Ami Amigo • May 3 '20

30 Languages!! No PHP?? Really??

Anurag Hazra • May 1 '20

Check this out
github.com/anuraghazra/Nothing

Muhimen • May 2 '20

Didn't see that coming

Anurag Hazra • May 2 '20

Yeah because it's "nothing" 😏

Roland Bengtsson • May 5 '20

But you miss Delphi!

program HelloWorld;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

begin
  WriteLn('Hello World');
end.

ynfle • May 5 '20

Nim

echo "Hello, World!"

Johan Dahl • May 5 '20 • Edited

Prolog

write('Hello world').

derek • May 2 '20

Awesome!!!

Kieran Pilkington • May 2 '20

Heres a project I've done, 16 implements of Conways game of life: github.com/KieranP/Game-Of-Life-Im...

agtoever • May 2 '20 • Edited

See this repo
(there is nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel... ;-))

Muhimen • May 2 '20

I thought I was the first person to do this. But you know, there is at least one person on the internet who has done something before you would do.
(But still, I enjoyed it)

Arie Beresteanu • May 4 '20

Fortran

PROGRAM hello
PRINT *,"Hello, World!"
END PROGRAM hello

James McPherson • May 4 '20

I think I need another coffee, because I thought you were going to be providing human language translations and show use of dgettext(...)

Good article.

Humberto A Sanchez II • May 5 '20

Funny

km4 • May 14 '20

console.log("Hello, World!"); or document.writeln('Hello, World!'); should be the same example in 6 and 7 points.

O • May 5 '20

No ArnoldC? lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

Shana • May 4 '20

Love this! :)

Jas Phillips • May 4 '20 • Edited

Nice, wanted to share the love to all the powershell fans out there
Write-Output "Hello World"

JoelBonetR 🥇 • May 5 '20

No one:
Absolute no one:
PHP: echo('hello, world');

Katherine Hambley • May 4 '20

This. Is. Awesome. Great job!

Mehdi Mousavi • May 2 '20

PHP:

<?php
echo "Hello, World!";

also, I think Swift one is actually Objective-C!!!

Klausbert • May 5 '20

Fair enough.
Now, where are the unit tests?

NexWebSites • Dec 3 '20 • Edited

Surprised not to see a Hello World in Erlang.

Vishnu Baliga • May 2 '20

Good article :) It was fun and interesting going through each of the languages.

Adrian Kałuziński • May 6 '20

I really miss LOLCODE here.

HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HELLO WORLD!"
KTHXBYE

LOLCODE is an esoteric programming language inspired by lolspeak, the language expressed in examples of the lolcat Internet meme. The language was created in 2007 by Adam Lindsay, researcher at the Computing Department of Lancaster University.