hello world!
My bread and butter has been coding in the Java language. In Java, the meat of a Hello World program looks like so:
System.out.println("hello world!");
There's other bits to it but that's the part that will actually print something out on the screen. In PHP, the language this site was written in, it goes a little something like this:
echo 'hello world!';
My personal favorite is a language called Brainfuck, which was written with the express purpose of having the smallest compiler ever. It's not a useful language by any stretch of the imagination and exists sheerly by virtue of the fact that programmers have a hard time getting girlfriends and usually have Saturday nights free. Hello World in Brainfuck:
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
We get lots of comments on our name and people seem to enjoy the sentiment. We like that the name means something even if you aren't wise to its etymology. But every once in a great while, someone will see our name and come up to us with a smirk on his face. He gets it. He knows what we're talking about. And his Saturday night is wide open.
