A "hello world" program is a computer program that simply prints out "Hello, world!". 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. A "hello world" program is typically one of the simpler programs possible in a computer language. Some are surprisingly complex, especially in some Graphical User Interface (GUI) contexts. Some others are surprisingly simple, especially those which heavily rely on a particular shell to perform the actual output.
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 tool chain 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. The example program from that book prints "hello, world"
(i.e., no capital letters, no exclamation sign).
A collection of "hello world" programs written in various computer languages can serve as a simple "Rosetta Stone" to assist in learning and comparing the languages.
Here are some examples in different languages:
WRITE "Hello World "
with Ada.Text_Io; use Ada.Text_Io; procedure Hello is begin Put_Line ("Hello, world!"); end Hello;
PROC main() WriteF('Hello, World!') ENDPROC
'Hello World'
See the Example section of the PDP-8 article.
MSG: .ASCIIZ "Hello, world!" LDX #0 LDA MSG,X ; load initial char @LP: JSR $FFD2 ; CHROUT CBM KERNAL INX LDA MSG,X BNE @LP RTS
MODEL SMALL IDEAL STACK 100HDATASEG MSG DB 'Hello, world!$'
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
.MCALL .REGDEF,.TTYOUT,.EXIT .REGDEFHELLO: MOV #MSG,R1 MOVB (R1),R0 LOOP: .TTYOUT MOVB +(R1),R0 BNE LOOP .EXIT
MSG: .ASCIZ /HELLO, WORLD!/ .END HELLO
.title hello term_name: .ascid /SYS$INPUT/ term_chan: .blkw 1 out_iosb: .blkq 1 msg: .asciz /Hello, world!/ .entry start,0 ; establish a channel for terminal I/O $assign_s devnam=term_name,- chan=term_chan blbc r0,error ; queue the I/O request $qio_s chan=term_chan,- func=#io$_writevblk,- iosb=out_iosb,- p1=msg,- p2=#13 blbc r0,error $exit_s ; normal exit error: halt ; error condition.end start
BEGIN { print "Hello, world!" }
10 PRINT "Hello, world!" 20 END
:Disp "Hello, world!"
print "Hello, world!"
GET "LIBHDR"LET START () BE $( WRITES ("Hello, world!*N") $)
#includeint main(void) { printf("Hello, world!\\n"); return 0; }
#includeusing namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello, world!" << endl; return 0; }
class HelloWorldApp { public static void Main() { System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!"); } }
module helloStart :: String Start = "Hello, world"
PROC 0 WRITE Hello, World!
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY "Hello, world!". STOP RUN.
(format t "Hello world!~%")
class HELLO_WORLDcreation make feature make is local io:BASIC_IO do !!io io.put_string("%N Hello, world!") end -- make end -- class HELLO_WORLD
-module(hello). -export([hello_world/0]).hello_world() -> io:fwrite("Hello, world!\\n").
." Hello, world!" CR
PROGRAM HELLO WRITE(*,10) 10 FORMAT('Hello, world!') STOP END
module HelloWorld (main) wheremain = putStr "Hello World\\n"
ON ENTER { "Hello, " "World!" & SAY }
public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, world!"); } }
print [hello world!]
print "Hello, world!"
TERM EQU 19 the MIX console device number ORIG 1000 start address START OUT MSG(TERM) output data at address MSG HLT halt execution MSG ALF "MIXAL" ALF " HELL" ALF "O WOR" ALF "LD " END START end of the program
@echo off echo Hello, world!
let _ = print_endline "Hello world!";;
PROC hello: PRINT "Hello, World" ENDP
program Hello; begin writeln('Hello, world!'); end.
print "Hello, world!\\n";
Hello, world!
#!/usr/local/bin/pike int main() { write("Hello, world!\\n"); return 0; }
Test: procedure options(main); declare My_String char(20) varying initialize('Hello, world!'); put skip list(My_String); end Test;
print "Hello, world!"
say "Hello, world!"
print "Hello, world!\\n"
class HELLO_WORLD is main is #OUT+"Hello World\\n"; end; end;
(display "Hello, world!") (newline)
sed -ne '1s/.*/Hello, world!/p'
'Hello, World!' uppercase print.
Transcript show: 'Hello, world!'
print "Hello, world!\\n";
OUTPUT = "Hello, world!" END
create table MESSAGE (TEXT char(15)); insert into MESSAGE (TEXT) values ('Hello, world!'); select TEXT from MESSAGE; drop table MESSAGE;Or
select 'Hello, world' from dual;Or, more simply
print 'Hello, World.'
sub main print "Hello, World" end sub
puts "Hello, world!"
put "Hello, world!"
echo 'Hello, world!'
Algoritmul Salut este: fie s:="Hello, world"; tipareste s; sf-Salut
#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; }
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*;public class HelloFrame extends Frame { HelloFrame(String title) { super(title); } public void paint(Graphics g) { super.paint(g); java.awt.Insets ins = this.getInsets(); g.drawString("Hello, world!", ins.left + 25, ins.top + 25); } public static void main(String args []) { HelloFrame fr = new HelloFrame("Hello");
fr.addWindowListener( new WindowAdapter() { public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) { System.exit( 0 ); } } ); fr.setResizable(true); fr.setSize(500, 100); fr.setVisible(true); } }
#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(); }
MsgBox "Hello, world!"
#includeLRESULT 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)) { 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; }
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); } }
Hello World Example
javascript:alert('Hello, world!')
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
Hello, world! Hello, world!
/font /Courier findfont 24 scalefont font setfont 100 100 moveto (Hello world!) show showpage
\\font\\HW=cmr10 scaled 3000 \\leftline{\\HW Hello world} \\bye