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niggler
Sad to see brainfuck missing :/
objclxt
99 Bottles is a similar, if slightly more complex, thing. Brainfuck included!

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/

beatgammit
But it has 1500 different programming languages, which is FAR more impressive (whitespace included =D)
ysangkok
99 Bottles is way better because it covers iteration. FizzBuzz is even better because 99 Bottles emphasizes string handling a bit much.
dewitt
One of the more popular sites of this nature is rosettacode.org, which in their own words, "is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another."

For example: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_World

Plus, I enjoyed learning the word "chrestomathy", which "from the Greek words khrestos, useful, and mathein, to know, is a collection of choice literary passages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject."

smsm42
Interestingly enough, I think this is the first time I see this word used in English, though in Russian it is pretty common (unsurprisingly, used in the same context). In fact, Google has 10 times more results for Russian one than for the English one.
stesch
The intention behind "Hello, world!" was to show the steps you need to run your code. In C's case: compiling it.

These examples just show some silly code, without any further information.

It would be really interesting to see how some languages deploy.

pschastain
A bit off-topic, but the site locks up Chrome on Snow Leopard and causes one my cores to peak, and I'm forced to eventually kill the tab. Firefox has no problems. Any ideas why that might be?

Otherwise, a fun read-through.

pud
JavaScript example is wrong:

  <a href="#" onclick="helloWorld(); return false;">Hello World Example</a>
cwmma
none of the JavaScript ones even work in Node.js, I'd probably consider

    console.log('Hello, world!');
to be the closest to universal one.
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beatgammit
Some implementations don't define console, so this wouldn't work in some (for example, Rhino).

Something like this would be more universal:

    if (typeof console === 'object') {
        console.log('Hello, World!');
    } else if (typeof document === 'object') {
        document.write('Hello, World!');
    } else {
        print('Hello, World!');
    }
http://progopedia.com/implementation/rhino/
cwmma
god damn rhinoceruses fucking everything up.
msoad
Brainfuck was missing. Here is Hello World in brainfuck

    >+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-]<+.+++++++..+++.>>>++++++++[<++++>-]
    <.>>>++++++++++[<+++++++++>-]<---.<<<<.+++.------.--------.>>+.
smsm42
PHP ones are wrong. Hello world in PHP is this:

Hello world!

rll
Yup, people often miss that PHP is modal and that the default mode is simply to output. So if you put Hello World in a file it actually compiles to these opcodes:

    ECHO      'Hello+World%0A'
    RETURN    1
Which is identical to the opcodes produced by putting <?php echo "Hello World"; ?> into a file.
ysangkok
No, it's not identical.

    $ echo -n "<?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>" > hello.php
    $ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
    line     # *  op                           fetch          ext  return  operands
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1     0  >   ECHO                                                     'Hello+World'
          1    > RETURN                                                   1

    $ echo -n "Hello World" > hello.php
    $ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
    1     0  >   ECHO                                                     'Hello+World'
          1    > RETURN                                                   1

    $ echo "<?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>" > hello.php 
    $ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
    1     0  >   ECHO                                                     'Hello+World'
    2     1    > RETURN                                                   1

    $ echo "Hello World" > hello.php 
    $ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
    2     0  >   ECHO                                                     'Hello+World%0A'
          1    > RETURN                                                   1
PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.6 / Zend Engine v2.3.0 / vld-0.11.2
geldedus
actually the code for ruby is even simpler:

"Hello world"

podperson
AS3 example creates class with a method but doesn't call the method. Also it subclasses a sprite but then uses trace (console log). Fractally bad.