Hello World" is the first program one usually writes whenlearning a new programming language. Having first been mentioned in Brian Kernighan'stutorial to the B programming language,it became widely known through Kernighan & Ritchie's 1978 book that introduced"The C Programming Language",where it read like this:
Since then, Hello World has been implemented in just aboutevery programming language on the planet. This collection includes603 Hello World programsin as many more-or-less well known programming languages, plus78 human languages.
The programs in this collection are intended to be as minimal aspossible in the respective language. They are meant to demonstratehow to output Hello World as simply as possible, not to show offlanguage features. For a collection of programs that tell moreabout what programming in the languages actually is like, have alook at the 99 Bottlesof Beer collection.
The Hello World Collection, started in 1994, was compiledwith help from many people around the world. It isthe biggest collection of Hello World programs on the Internet,and the only one collecting human languages as well. To contribute,send your program to in...@helloworldcollection.de.Begin your contribution with a comment in the respective language.Real programming languages only please.
About Hello World The Wikipedia article about Hello World programs. A discussion about the origin of the "hello world" phrase. How the way people code "Hello World" varies depending on their age and job from the GNU Humor Collection. Analyzing the Hello World programto death. More Hello World Programs A github repository collecting Hello World programs. Another collection of Hello World programs, seemingly discontinued. A Wiki with some interesting languages and additional information. Hello World in 180+ esoteric programming languages. A Wiki with some interesting languages and additional information. The GNU Hello project, a sophisticated C implementation of the Hello World program. A famous polyglottal Hello World program that runs in Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, C, Postscript, sh, Perl and x86 machine language. Another polyglottal Hello World program that runs in C, Perl, Brainf*ck and Whitespace. Submitted by Raphal Bois. Contests about writing obfuscated Hello World programs: one from 2011, another one from 2014. "Hello world" in BCPL on the Xerox Alto simulator. The Hello World Quiz: Can you name the programming language based on its Hello World syntax? A Python program that uses artifical intelligence to generate Hello World phrases. Other Ways To Say Hello World Hello World in Semacode, written in a wheat field. A collection of Hello and other greetings in hundreds of human languages. A paper poster of the Hello World collection. A quiz game about guessing programming languages from Hello World programs. #TGIQF - the programming language quiz, by heise online (German). Hello World in C, hand-written and autographed by Brian Kernighan in 1978 About This Collection A video explaining how the Hello World Collection is built and maintained. An interview about background and history of the Hello World Collection, from the June 2014 edition of the Italian online magazine "Notas y Reflexiones". The oldest known version of the Hello World Collection (January 1996), and probably one of the first ones that were published on the Internet. The oldest version of the Hello World site in the Internet Archive (March 2000, 94 programs). The History of the Hello World CollectionThe Hello World Collection was started on 3-Oct-1994 as a simple text file.After some posts on a German BBS network, itwas put on the World Wide Web on 30-Dec-1999 as part of a private homepage.On 14-Sep-2014 it moved to its own domain,
helloworldcollection.de, by whichtime it had accumulated 21 Reddit points, 35 LinkedIn shares, 156 Google Plus's,450 Tweets, and 1947 Facebook likes. It got its own Twitter account,@HelloWorldClctn,on 31-Jan-2015.
The Collection is administered as a bunch of text files whichare compiled into this single HTML file by a bash script, originallywritten for Linux, then used under Cygwin on Windows, then for several yearson macOS, now on Linux again.By the way, this site is the original Hello World Collection.Throughout the Web, you can find many copies of various versionsof this file, not all of which give proper credit to those whocompiled and contributed to it over the years. The official addressof the Hello World Collection is
helloworldcollection.de.
The Hello World Collection is a static page with no active contents.It doesn't have any scripts, cookies, ads, trackers, Facebook links, oranything else that might poke around in your private parts. It doesn'ttrack or record your IP address beyond what's required by the Internetprotocols to deliver static content to your browser. You don'thave to log in, register, pay, or sell your soul in order to use it.Just browse it, read it as long as you wish, leave when you're done.Feel free to send feedback to
in...@helloworldcollection.de.
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