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Post number 12634

moz — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:48:54 -0800

"Hello, world!" in 114 programming languages. Whenever picking up a new language, it's customary to write a program that prints "Hello, world!" to see how one goes about writing anything in said language. Now you never need be curious about what language to write your custom-designed CMS in.

By: moz

moz — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:50:33 -0800

ALGOL, a very old language, i can now say is quite wonky indeed. all the keywords are quoted strings!

By: adamv

adamv — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:52:25 -0800

Or if you are an angsty programmer you can subsitute the lesser known "goodbye, world" program.

By: moz

moz — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:52:41 -0800

(oh, god, i'm stupid. i meant to say that this link is courtesy of fozbaca.)

By: youhas

youhas — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:57:24 -0800

Aw, man, they don't even have Malbolge on the list!

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:02:38 -0800

I feel this thread is going to get real slashdotty real soon. Let me begin. The BASIC version is four characters too long. It should be:

?"Hello World" Very cool link.

By: moz

moz — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:09:02 -0800

there's a programming language for orangutans called Ook.

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:39:17 -0800

there's a programming language for orangutans called Ook. It's just a matter of time before they change the name to Jovo and try and beat Microsoft with it....

By: panopticon

panopticon — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:47:07 -0800

I always preferred "Jello world." Just imagine, a world of Jello.

By: y10k

y10k — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:58:34 -0800

I very much like the 99 Bottles of Beer version of this same sort of exercise.

By: signal

signal — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:02:43 -0800

Please note: When learning a new programming language, please use »Hi Fan!« or »Welcome, Me!«, but try to avoid the »Hello World!« example. My system is heavy loaded by all those gotohell processes to destroy all those worlds which are accidently created each day by those newbies trying obscure programming languages.

By: glenwood

glenwood — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:10:30 -0800

Yes a lot of these are needlessly long for the sake of being interestingly complex-looking.

By: trioperative

trioperative — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:13:48 -0800

Or, perhaps, "Hello Biafra!"

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:32:16 -0800

My favorite (along the "interestingly complex-looking" lines: Brainf*ck. No, really. More on Brainf*ck.

By: Su

Su — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:02:23 -0800

Brainfuck is odd, yes, but still makes a certain amount of simple sense. Befunge on the other hand doesn't differentiate between code and data, and can be written dimensionally, so that the source code can overlap itself and reuse characters, etc. Might help you understand why the Befunge examples in the linked page look like they do. The Cat's Eye page I linked also has examples of many other seriously twisted languages. Check out TurkeyBomb!

By: louie

louie — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:32:31 -0800

A guy I work with has actually written code in befunge and has seriously considered a port of befunge to the lego mindstorms. I knew Chris was a twisted genius before that little revelation but that sealed the deal.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:20:05 -0800

Hey youhas, I wrote the only existing malbolge hello world (OK, actually I wrote the program that wrote it, and the only version I've got left actually says "HEllO WORld", but that's good enough, isn't it?).

By: youhas

youhas — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:29:33 -0800

I've seen (and linked) your efforts before, andrew cooke; that was quite the impressive odyssey you undertook to get a simple "Hello World" up and running. I give you many a virtual tip of my hat. Ah, but 'tis not the only existing "Hello World" in Malbolge anymore, as I wrote one of my own last summer! (OK, I too only wrote the program that wrote the program. OTOH, I managed to make things deterministic enough that I could generate other strings at will - the same link offers up programs that say "Malbolge sucks", the text of the Gettysburg Address, and the like. Keen, eh?)

By: Spoon

Spoon — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:49:00 -0800

more hello world stuff: here relatively amusing i suppose....

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:36:13 -0800

Spoon, that was a hoot! MasterP's code reminded me of EJBs.