70 Years Of “Hello, World!” With 50 Programming Languages

Time travel in the world of computer programming.

The “Hello, World!” program is a classic when you start with a programming language. Thus, all programmers have at least completed a “Hello, World!” program during their careers. Programmers generally using more than one programming language during their careers, most of them have even realized more than a dozen at least.

There is even a metric called TTHW for Time to “Hello, World!” measuring the time it takes a programmer to create a “Hello, World!” program and successfully runs it in a new programming language.

However, if I asked you today how many different programming languages you can write a “Hello, World!” program in, what would be your answer?

To help you and refresh your memory, I propose a short journey through time in the world of computer programming. To do this, I will show you “Hello, World!” programs written in 50 different programming languages. This will allow you to see the evolution of computer programming languages over time as well.