Hello World Program

A "hello world" program is a computer program that prints out "Hello, world!" on a display device. It is used in many introductory tutorials for teaching a programming language and many students use it as their first programming experience in a language. Such a program is typically one of the simplest programs possible in a computer language. Some are surprisingly complex, especially in some graphical user interface (GUI) contexts. Some others are very simple, however, especially those which rely heavily on a particular command line interpreter ("shell") to perform the actual output. In many embedded systems, the text may be sent to a one or two-line LCD display (and in yet other systems, a simple LED being turned on may substitute for "Hello world!"). A "hello world" program can be a useful sanity test to make sure that a language's compiler, development environment, and run-time environment are correctly installed. Configuring a complete programming toolchain from scratch to the point where even trivial programs can be compiled and run may involve substantial amounts of work. For this reason, a simple program is used first when testing a new tool chain. While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase "Hello world!" as the test message was influenced by an example program in the book The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, published in 1978. The example program from that book prints "hello, world" (i.e., no capital letters, no exclamation sign; those have entered the tradition later). The book had inherited the program from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Kernighan —Programming in C: A Tutorial— which shows the first known version of the program:
     main( ) {         printf("hello, world");     } 
However, the first known instance of the usage of the words "hello" and "world" together in computer literature is in A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, by Brian Kernighan, 1973. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bintro.html A collection of "hello world" programs written in various computer languages can serve as a very simple "Rosetta Stone" to assist in learning and comparing the languages. Keep in mind, however, that unless assembly language or similar very low-level (hardware-near) languages are involved, not much "computing" (calculation) is usually exhibited. Here are some examples in different languages:

Text user interface (Known as TUI, console or line-oriented)


ABC

     WRITE "Hello World" 

Ada

     with Ada.Text_IO;       procedure Hello is     begin        Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Hello, world!");     end Hello; 
For explanation see .

AmigaE

     PROC main()        WriteF('Hello, World!')     ENDPROC 

APL

     'Hello World' 

Assembly language

Accumulator-only architecture: DEC PDP-8, PAL-III assembler

See the example section of the PDP-8 article.

First successful P/OS combinations: Intel 8080/Zilog Z80, CP/M, RMAC assembler

     bdos    equ    0005H    ; BDOS entry point     start:  mvi    c,9      ; BDOS function: output string             lxi    d,msg$   ; address of msg             call   bdos             ret             ; return to CCP       msg$:   db    'Hello, world!$'     end     start 

Accumulator + index register machine: MOS Technology 6502, CBM KERNAL, ca65 assembler

     MSG:   .ASCIIZ "Hello, world!"             LDX    #0             LDA    MSG,X    ; load initial char     @LP:    JSR    $FFD2    ; chrout             INX             LDA    MSG,X             BNE    @LP             RTS 

Accumulator/Index microcoded machine: Data General Nova, RDOS

See the example section of the Nova article.

Expanded accumulator machine: Intel x86, DOS, TASM

     MODEL   SMALL     IDEAL     STACK   100H       DATASEG             MSG DB 'Hello, world!', 13, '$'       CODESEG             MOV AX, @data             MOV DS, AX             MOV DX, OFFSET MSG             MOV AH, 09H      ; DOS: output ASCII$ string             INT 21H             MOV AX, 4C00H             INT 21H     END 

Expanded accumulator machine: Intel x86, Linux, GAS

     .data     msg:     	.ascii	"Hello, world!\n"     	len = . - msg     .text         .global _start     _start:     	movl	$len,%edx     	movl	$msg,%ecx     	movl	$1,%ebx     	movl	$4,%eax     	int	$0x80     	movl	$0,%ebx     	movl	$1,%eax     	int	$0x80 

General-purpose fictional computer: MIX, MIXAL

     TERM    EQU    19          console device no. (19 = typewriter)             ORIG   1000        start address     START   OUT    MSG(TERM)   output data at address MSG             HLT                halt execution     MSG     ALF    "HELLO"             ALF    " WORL"             ALF    "D    "             END    START       end of program 

General-purpose fictional computer: MMIX, MMIXAL

       Main  GETA   $255,string            get the address of the string in register 255             TRAP   0,Fputs,StdOut         put the string pointed to by register 255 to file StdOut     string  BYTE   "Hello, world!",#a,0   string to be printed (#a is newline and 0 terminates the string)             TRAP   0,Halt,0               end process 

General-purpose-register CISC: DEC PDP-11, RT-11, MACRO-11

    .MCALL  .REGDEF,.TTYOUT,.EXIT            .REGDEF       HELLO:  MOV    #MSG,R1             MOVB   (R1),R0     LOOP:  .TTYOUT             MOVB  +(R1),R0             BNE    LOOP            .EXIT       MSG:   .ASCIZ  /HELLO, WORLD!/            .END    HELLO 

CISC on advanced multiprocessing OS: DEC VAX, VMS, MACRO-32

             .title    hello               .psect    data, wrt, noexe       chan:   .blkw     1     iosb:   .blkq     1     term:   .ascid    "SYS$OUTPUT"     msg:    .ascii    "Hello, world!"     len =   . - msg               .psect    code, nowrt, exe               .entry    hello, ^m<>               ; Establish a channel for terminal I/O             $assign_s devnam=term, -                       chan=chan             blbc      r0, end               ; Queue the I/O request             $qiow_s   chan=chan, -                       func=#io$_writevblk, -                       iosb=iosb, -                       p1=msg, -                       p2=#len               ; Check the status and the IOSB status             blbc      r0, end             movzwl    iosb, r0               ; Return to operating system     end:    ret              .end       hello 

RISC processor: ARM, RISC OS, BBC BASIC's in-line assembler

    .program                      ADR R0,message             SWI "OS_Write0"             SWI "OS_Exit"    .message                      DCS "Hello, world!"             DCB 0             ALIGN 
or the even smaller version (from qUE);
             SWI"OS_WriteS":EQUS"Hello, world!":EQUB0:ALIGN:MOVPC,R14 

AWK

     BEGIN { print "Hello, world! how r u doing" } 

BASIC

The following example works for any ANSI/ISO-compliant BASIC implementation, as well as most implementations built into or distributed with microcomputers in the 1970s and 1980s (usually some variant of Microsoft BASIC).
     10 PRINT "Hello, world!"     20 END 
Such implementations of BASIC could also execute instructions in an immediate mode when line numbers are omitted. The following examples works without requiring a RUN instruction.
     PRINT "Hello, world!"     ? "Hello, world!" 
Later implementations of BASIC allowed greater support for structured programming and did not require line numbers for source code. The following example works when RUN for the vast majority of modern BASICs.
     PRINT "Hello, world!"     END 
Again the "End" statement is optional in many BASICs.

TI-BASIC

On TI calculators of the TI-80 through TI-86 range:
     :Disp "HELLO, WORLD!"    or    :Output(1,1,"HELLO, WORLD!") 
Or simply
     :"HELLO, WORLD!" 
On TI-89/TI-92 calculators:
     :hellowld()     :Prgm     :Disp "Hello, world!"     :EndPrgm 

StarOffice/OpenOffice Basic

     sub main         print "Hello, World"     end sub 

Visual Basic

To output to the debug console:
     Debug.Print "Hello, world!" 
To output a message box to the user:
     VBA.Interaction.MsgBox "Hello, world!" 

BCPL

     GET "LIBHDR"       LET START () BE     $(         WRITES ("Hello, world!*N")     $) 

BLISS

     %TITLE 'HELLO_WORLD'     MODULE HELLO_WORLD (IDENT='V1.0', MAIN=HELLO_WORLD,             ADDRESSING_MODE (EXTERNAL=GENERAL)) =     BEGIN           LIBRARY 'SYS$LIBRARY:STARLET';           EXTERNAL ROUTINE            LIB$PUT_OUTPUT;       GLOBAL ROUTINE HELLO_WORLD =     BEGIN           LIB$PUT_OUTPUT(%ASCID %STRING('Hello World!'))     END;       END     ELUDOM 

boo

     print "Hello, world!" 

Casio fx-7950

This program will work on the fx-9750 graphing calculator and compatibles.
     "HELLO WORLD"' 

C

     #include        int main(void)     {         printf("Hello, world!\n");         return 0;     } 

C#

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

C++

     #include        int main()     {         std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;         return 0;     } 

C++, Managed

     #using           using namespace System;          int wmain()     {         Console::WriteLine("Hello, world!");         return 0;     } 

ColdFusion (CFM)

          Hello, world!      

COMAL

     PRINT "Hello, World!" 

CIL

     .method public static void Main() cil managed     {          .entrypoint          .maxstack 8          ldstr "Hello, world!"          call void mscorlibSystem.Console::WriteLine(string)          ret     } 

Clean

     module hello       Start = "Hello, world" 

CLIST

     PROC 0     WRITE Hello, World! 

COBOL

     IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.     PROGRAM-ID.     HELLO-WORLD.       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.       DATA DIVISION.       PROCEDURE DIVISION.     DISPLAY "Hello, world!".     STOP RUN. 

Common Lisp

     (format t "Hello world!~%") 
or
     (write-line "Hello World!") 

D

     import std.stdio;     void main()     {         writefln("Hello, world!");     } 

DCL batch

     $ write sys$output "Hello, world!" 

Dylan

     module: hello       format-out("Hello, world!\n"); 

Ed and Ex (Ed extended)

     a     hello world!     .     p 
or like so:
     echo -e 'a\nhello world!\n.\np'|ed     echo -e 'a\nhello world!\n.\np'|ex 

Eiffel

     class HELLO_WORLD       creation         make     feature         make is         local                 io:BASIC_IO         do                 !!io                 io.put_string("%N Hello, world!")         end -- make     end -- class HELLO_WORLD 

Erlang

     -module(hello).     -export(hello_world/0).       hello_world() -> io:fwrite("Hello, world!\n"). 

Euphoria

     puts(1, "Hello, world!") 

F#

     type data =         { first: string;           second: string; }           let myData =             { first="Hello";               second="world"; }           let _ =             print_string myData.first;             print_string " ";             print_string myData.second;             print_newline() 

Focus

     -TYPE Hello World 

Forte TOOL

     begin TOOL HelloWorld;       includes Framework;     HAS PROPERTY IsLibrary = FALSE;       forward  Hello;       -- START CLASS DEFINITIONS       class Hello inherits from Framework.Object       has public  method Init;       has property         shared=(allow=off, override=on);         transactional=(allow=off, override=on);         monitored=(allow=off, override=on);         distributed=(allow=off, override=on);       end class;     -- END CLASS DEFINITIONS       -- START METHOD DEFINITIONS       ------------------------------------------------------------     method Hello.Init     begin     super.Init();       task.Part.LogMgr.PutLine('HelloWorld!');     end method;     -- END METHOD DEFINITIONS     HAS PROPERTY         CompatibilityLevel = 0;         ProjectType = APPLICATION;         Restricted = FALSE;         MultiThreaded = TRUE;         Internal = FALSE;         LibraryName = 'hellowor';         StartingMethod = (class = Hello, method = Init);       end HelloWorld; 

Forth

     ." Hello, world!" CR 

FORTRAN

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

Frink

     printlnworld!" 

Gambas

See also GUI section.
     PUBLIC SUB Main()       Print "Hello, world!"     END 

Game Maker

In the draw event of some object:
     draw_text(x,y,"Hello World") 
Or to show a splash screen message:
     show_message("Hello World") 

Haskell

     module Main (main) where       main = putStr "Hello World\n" 
or
     main = putStr "Hello World\n" 

Heron

     program HelloWorld;     functions {       _main() {         print_string("Hello, world!");       }     }     end 

HP-41 & HP-42S

(Handheld Hewlett-Packard RPN-based alphanumeric engineering calculators.)
       01 LBLTHELLO     02 THELLO, WORLD     03 PROMPT 
HP-41 output

HyperTalk (Apple HyperCard's scripting language)

     put "Hello world" 
Hello, HyperCard World!

IDL

     print,"Hello world!" 

Inform

     [ Main;       print "Hello, world!^";     ]; 

Io

     "Hello world!" print 
or
     write("Hello world!\n") 

Iptscrae

     ON ENTER {         "Hello, " "World!" & SAY     } 

Java

See also GUI section.
     public class Hello {         public static void main(String[] args) {             System.out.println("Hello, world!");         }     } 

JVM

(disassembler output of javap -c Hello.class)
     public class Hello extends java.lang.Object {         public Hello();         public static void main(java.lang.String[]);     }       Method Hello()        0 aload_0        1 invokespecial #1         4 return       Method void main(java.lang.String[])        0 getstatic #2         3 ldc #3         5 invokevirtual #4         8 return 

Kogut

     WriteLine "Hello, world!" 

Logo

     print  world! 
or
     pr World! 
In mswlogo only
     messagebox [Hi] [Hello World] 

Lua

     print "Hello, world!" 

M (MUMPS)

     W "Hello, world!" 

Macsyma, Maxima

     print("Hello, world!")$ 

Maple

     print("Hello, World!"); 

Mathematica

     PrintWorld" 

MATLAB

     disp('Hello World') 

Max

     max v2;     #N vpatcher 10 59 610 459;     #P message 33 93 63 196617 Hello world!;     #P newex 33 73 45 196617 loadbang;     #P newex 33 111 31 196617 print;     #P connect 1 0 2 0;     #P connect 2 0 0 0;     #P pop; 

Modula-2

     MODULE Hello;       FROM Terminal2 IMPORT WriteLn; WriteString;       BEGIN        WriteString("Hello, world!");        WriteLn;     END Hello; 

MS-DOS batch

(with the standard command.com interpreter. The @ symbol is optional and prevents the system from repeating the command before executing it. The @ symbol must be omitted on versions of MS-DOS prior to 3.0.)
     @echo Hello, world! 

MUF

     : main       me @ "Hello, world!" notify     ; 

Natural

     WRITE "Hello, World!"     END 

Ncurses

     #include      int main()     {         initscr();         printw("Hello, world!");         refresh();         getch();         endwin();         return 0;     } 

Oberon

    MODULE Hello;            IMPORT Oberon, Texts;     VAR W: Texts.Writer;       PROCEDURE World*;     BEGIN       Texts.WriteString(W, "Hello World!");       Texts.WriteLn(W);       Texts.Append(Oberon.Log, W.buf)     END World;      BEGIN     Texts.OpenWriter(W)    END Hello. 

Objective C

     #import        int main (int argc, const char * argv[])     {        NSLog(@"Hello, World!");        return 0;     } 

OCaml

     print_endline "Hello world!" 

OPL

See also GUI section.
     PROC hello:       PRINT "Hello, World"     ENDP 

OPS5

     (object-class request              ^action)       (startup        (strategy MEA)        (make request ^action hello)     )         (rule hello        (request ^action hello)        -->          (write |Hello World!| (crlf))     ) 

Pascal

     Program Hello;     begin         WriteLn('Hello, world!');     end. 

Perl

     print "Hello, world!\n"; 
(This is the first example of Learning Perl.)

PHP

      
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Pike

     int main() {         write("Hello, world!\n");         return 0;     } 

PL/SQL

     procedure print_hello_world as         dbms_output.enable(1000000);         dbms_output.put_line("Hello World!");     end print_hello_world; 

PL/I

     Test: proc options(main) reorder;       put skip edit('Hello, world!') (a);     end Test; 

POP-11

     'Hello world' => 

POV-Ray

     #include "colors.inc"     camera {       location <3, 1, -10>       look_at <3,0,0>     }     light_source { <500,500,-1000> White }     text {       ttf "timrom.ttf" "Hello world!" 1, 0       pigment { White }     } 

Processing

     println("Hello world!"); 

Prolog

     write('Hello world'),nl. 

Python

     print "Hello, world!" 

REXX, NetRexx, and Object REXX

     say "Hello, world!" 

RPL

See also GUI section. (On Hewlett-Packard HP-28, HP-48 and HP-49 series graphing calculators.)
     <<       CLLCD       "Hello, World!" 1 DISP       0 WAIT       DROP     >> 

Ruby

See also GUI section.
     puts "Hello, world!" 

SAS

     data _null_;     put 'Hello World!';     run; 

Sather

     class HELLO_WORLD is       main is         #OUT+"Hello World\n";        end;      end; 

Scala

     object HelloWorld with Application {       Console.println("Hello, world!");     } 

Scheme

     (display "Hello, world!")     (newline) 

sed

(note: requires at least one line of input)
     sed -ne '1s/.*/Hello, world!/p' 

Self

     'Hello, World!' print. 

Simula

     BEGIN         OutText("Hello World!");         OutImage;     END 

Smalltalk

     Transcript show: 'Hello, world!'; cr 

SML

     print "Hello, world!\n"; 

SNOBOL

         OUTPUT = "Hello, world!"     END 

SPARK

     with Spark_IO;     --# inherit Spark_IO;     --# main_program;       procedure Hello_World     --# global in out Spark_IO.Outputs;     --# derives Spark_IO.Outputs from Spark_IO.Outputs;     is     begin        Spark_IO.Put_Line (Spark_IO.Standard_Output, "Hello, world!", 0);     end Hello_World; 

SPITBOL

         OUTPUT = "Hello, world!"     END 

SQL

     CREATE TABLE message (text char(15));     INSERT INTO message (text) VALUES ('Hello, world!');     SELECT text FROM message;     DROP TABLE message; 
or (e.g. Oracle dialect)
     SELECT 'Hello, world!' FROM dual; 
or (for Oracle's PL/SQL proprietary procedural language)
     BEGIN       DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(1000000);       DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Hello World, from PL/SQL');     END; 
or (e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL dialect)
     SELECT 'Hello, world!'; 
or (e.g. T-SQL dialect)
     PRINT 'Hello, world!' 
or (for KB-SQL dialect)
     select Null from DATA_DICTIONARY.SQL_QUERY       FOOTER or HEADER or DETAIL or FINAL event     write "Hello, world!" 

STARLET

     RACINE: HELLO_WORLD.       NOTIONS:     HELLO_WORLD : ecrire("Hello, world!"). 

TACL

     #OUTPUT Hello, world! 

Tcl (Tool command language)

See also GUI section.
     puts "Hello, world!" 

Turing

     put "Hello, world!" 

TSQL

     Declare @Output varchar(16)     Set @Output='Hello, world!'     Select @Output         or, simpler variations:       Select 'Hello, world!'     Print 'Hello, world!' 

UNIX-style shell

     echo 'Hello, world!' 
or
     printf 'Hello, world!\n' 
or for a curses interface:
     dialog --msgbox "Hello, world!" 0 0 

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)


ActionScript (Macromedia flash mx)

     trace ("hello, world!") 

AppleScript

     display dialog "Hello, world!" 
Or to have the OS synthesize it and literally say "hello world!" (with no comma, as that would cause the synthesizer to pause)
    say "Hello world!" 

Cocoa or GNUStep (In Objective C)

    #import     @interface hello : NSObject {    }    @end        @implementation hello        -(void)awakeFromNib    {	         NSBeep(); // we don't need this but it's conventional to beep                    // when you show an alert         NSRunAlertPanel(@"Message from your Computer", @"Hello, world!", @"Hi!",                         nil, nil);    }        @end 

Delphi,Kylix

     ShowMessage("Hello, world!"); 

FLTK2 (in C++)

     #include      #include      #include      using namespace fltk;          int main(int argc, char **argv)     {         Window *window = new Window(300, 180);         window->begin();             Widget *box = new Widget(20, 40, 260, 100, "Hello, World!");             box->box(UP_BOX);             box->labelfont(HELVETICA_BOLD_ITALIC);             box->labelsize(36);             box->labeltype(SHADOW_LABEL);         window->end();         window->show(argc, argv);              return run();     } 

Gambas

See also TUI section.
     PUBLIC SUB Main()       Message.Info("Hello, world!")     END 

GTK toolkit (in C++)

     #include      #include      #include      #include      using namespace std;       class HelloWorld : public Gtk::Window {     public:       HelloWorld();       virtual ~HelloWorld();     protected:       Gtk::Button m_button;       virtual void on_button_clicked();     };       HelloWorld::HelloWorld()     : m_button("Hello, world!") {         set_border_width(10);         m_button.signal_clicked().connect(SigC::slot(*this,                                           &HelloWorld::on_button_clicked));         add(m_button);         m_button.show();     }       HelloWorld::~HelloWorld() {}       void HelloWorld::on_button_clicked() {         cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;     }       int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {         Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv);         HelloWorld helloworld;         Gtk::Main::run(helloworld);         return 0;     } 

GTK# (in C#)

     using Gtk;     using GtkSharp;     using System;       class Hello {           static void Main()         {             Application.Init ();               Window window = new Window ("helloworld");             window.Show();               Application.Run ();           }     } 

GTK 2.x (in Euphoria)

     include gtk2/wrapper.e       Info(NULL,"Hello","Hello World!") 

Java

See also TUI section.
     import javax.swing.JOptionPane;       public class Hello {         public static void main(String[] args) {             JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Hello, world!");         }     } 

Java applet

Java applets work in conjunction with HTML files.
               Hello World                 HelloWorld Program says:                               import java.applet.*;     import java.awt.*;       public class HelloWorld extends Applet {       public void paint(Graphics g) {         g.drawString("Hello, world!", 100, 50);       }     } 

JavaScript and JScript

JavaScript (an implementation of ECMAScript) is a client-side scripting language used in HTML files. The following code can be placed in any HTML file:
            Hello World Example 
An easier method uses JavaScript implicitly, directly calling the reserved alert function. Cut and paste the following line inside the .... HTML tags.
     Hello World Example      
An even easier method involves using popular browsers' support for the virtual 'javascript' protocol to execute JavaScript code. Enter the following as an Internet address (usually by pasting into the address box):
     javascript:alert('Hello, world!'); 
There is an almost infinite number of ways to do it:
     javascript:document.write('Hello, world!\n'); 

OPL

See also TUI section. (On Psion Series 3 and later compatible PDAs.)
     PROC guihello:       ALERT("Hello, world!","","Exit")     ENDP 
or
     PROC hello:        dINIT "Window Title"        dTEXT "","Hello World"        dBUTTONS "OK",13        DIALOG     ENDP 

Qt toolkit (in C++)

     #include      #include      #include      #include        class HelloWorld : public QWidget     {         Q_OBJECT       public:         HelloWorld();         virtual ~HelloWorld();     public slots:         void handleButtonClicked();         QPushButton *mPushButton;     };       HelloWorld::HelloWorld() :         QWidget(),         mPushButton(new QPushButton("Hello, World!", this))     {         connect(mPushButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(handleButtonClicked()));     }       HelloWorld::~HelloWorld() {}       void HelloWorld::handleButtonClicked()     {         std::cout << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;     }       int main(int argc, char *argv[])     {         QApplication app(argc, argv);         HelloWorld helloWorld;         app.setMainWidget(&helloWorld);         helloWorld.show();         return app.exec();     } 

REALbasic

     MsgBox "Hello, world!" 

RPL

See also TUI section. (On Hewlett-Packard HP-48G and HP-49G series calculators.)
     << "Hello, World!" MSGBOX >> 

RTML

     Hello ()     TEXT "Hello, world!" 

SWT

     import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;     import org.eclipse.swt.layout.RowLayout;     import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;     import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;     import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Label;       public class SWTHello {         public static void main (String [] args) {             Display display = new Display ();             final Shell shell = new Shell(display);             RowLayout layout = new RowLayout();             layout.justify = true;             layout.pack = true;             shell.setLayout(layout);             shell.setText("Hello, World!");             Label label = new Label(shell, SWT.CENTER);             label.setText("Hello, World!");             shell.pack();             shell.open ();             while (!shell.isDisposed ()) {                 if (!display.readAndDispatch ()) display.sleep ();             }             display.dispose ();         }     } 

Tcl/Tk

See also TUI section.
     label .l -text "Hello, world!"     pack .l 

Visual Basic incl VBA

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

Windows API (in C)

     #include        LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);       char szClassName[] = "MainWnd";     HINSTANCE hInstance;       int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine,                        int nCmdShow)     {       HWND hwnd;       MSG msg;       WNDCLASSEX wincl;         hInstance = hInst;         wincl.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);       wincl.cbClsExtra = 0;       wincl.cbWndExtra = 0;       wincl.style = 0;       wincl.hInstance = hInstance;       wincl.lpszClassName = szClassName;       wincl.lpszMenuName = NULL; //No menu       wincl.lpfnWndProc = WindowProcedure;       wincl.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW + 1); //Color of the window       wincl.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); //EXE icon       wincl.hIconSm = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); //Small program icon       wincl.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); //Cursor         if (!RegisterClassEx(&wincl))             return 0;         hwnd = CreateWindowEx(0, //No extended window styles             szClassName, //Class name             "", //Window caption             WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW & ~WS_MAXIMIZEBOX,             CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, //Let Windows decide the left and top                                           //positions of the window             120, 50, //Width and height of the window,             NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);         //Make the window visible on the screen       ShowWindow(hwnd, nCmdShow);         //Run the message loop       while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)>0)       {             TranslateMessage(&msg);             DispatchMessage(&msg);       }       return msg.wParam;     }       LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure(HWND hwnd, UINT message,                                      WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)     {       PAINTSTRUCT ps;       HDC hdc;       switch (message)       {       case WM_PAINT:             hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);             TextOut(hdc, 15, 3, "Hello, world!", 13);             EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);             break;       case WM_DESTROY:             PostQuitMessage(0);             break;       default:             return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);       }       return 0;     } 
Or, much more simply:
     #include      int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine,                        int nCmdShow)     {         MessageBox(NULL, "Hello, world!", "", MB_OK);         return 0;     } 

Windows Script Host

     WScript.Echo "Hello, world!" 

Ruby with WxWidgets

See also TUI section.
     require 'wxruby'       class HelloWorldApp < Wx::App      def on_init       ourFrame = Wx::Frame.new(nil, -1, "Hello, world!").show       ourDialogBox = Wx::MessageDialog.new(ourFrame, "Hello, world!", "Information:", \                      Wx::OK|Wx::ICON_INFORMATION).show_modal      end     end       HelloWorldApp.new.main_loop 

XUL

 
                     Hello, world             

Esoteric programming languages

See: Hello world program in esoteric languages

Document formats

ASCII

The following sequence of characters, expressed in hexadecimal notation (with carriage return and newline characters at end of sequence):
      48 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 77 6F 72 6C 64 21 0D 0A 
The following sequence of characters, expressed as binary numbers (with cr/nl as above, and the same ordering of bytes):
      00--07: 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00101100 00100000 01110111      08--0F: 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001101 00001010 DONTCARE* 
(* The DONTCARE marker fills in for byte #0F, i.e. #15, which comes after our string.)

LaTeX

     \documentclass{article}     \begin{document}       Hello, world!     \end{document} 

XHTML 1.1

(Using UTF-8 character set.)
 
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"                           "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">       <head>         <title>Hello, world!</title>       </head>       <body>         <p>Hello, world!</p>       </body>     </html> 

Page description languages

HTML

(simple)
  <html><body> <h1>Hello, world!<p> </body></html>  
<html> and <body>-tags are not necessary for informal testing, <h1> should end with </h1> or <p>. You could even use the following
  <pre>Hello, World!</pre>  
or simple write it as text without tags.

HTML 4.01 Strict

(full) (Using UTF-8 character set.)
 
     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"                           "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">     <html>       <head>         <title>Hello, world!</title>         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">       </head>       <body>         <p>Hello, world!</p>       </body>     </html> 

XSL 1.0

(Using UTF-8 character set.)
 
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">     <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">       <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8"         doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"         doctype-pubilc="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"/>       <xsl:template match="/">         <html>           <head>             <title>Hello World</title>           </head>           <body>             Hello World           </body>         </html>       </xsl:template>     </xsl:stylesheet> 

PostScript

     /Courier findfont     24 scalefont     setfont     100 100 moveto     (Hello world!) show     showpage 

RTF

     {\rtf1\ansi\deff0     {\fonttbl {\f0 Courier New;}}     \f0\fs20 Hello, world!     } 

TeX

     \font\HW=cmr10 scaled 3000     \leftline{\HW Hello World}     \bye 

See also

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