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hello, world 

The first program you learn in a basic survey of a new programming language. Sometimes, but not always the program's sole function is to output the words "Hello World" on the display.
I've been working with Enterprise Java for weeks, and I'm not even at the "Hello, World" level.
hello, world by ryon January 22, 2004
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hello, world 

The first program learned in any given programming language: very easy.
Basic:
10 print"Hello, World"
Java:
System.out.println("Hello, World");
C,C++:
std::cout<<"Hello, World";
He doesn't know shit about hacking, hell, he couldn't even "hello, World"!
hello, world by Greg Weaver January 22, 2004

Hello, World! 

phrase. a phrase used in coding, usually the first thing a person makes in code.
For example the Python code:
print("Hello, World!")
would print

Hello, World!
Hello, World! by Khizar Caliphate October 8, 2021

print("Hello World!") 

You were really bored so you tried to learn how to code.
Joe: I am bored.
Joe clicks a YouTube video about coding.
Joe tries out the code that the guy on YouTube said to try out and types "print("Hello World!")".

hello world

The easiest, and first program any newbie would write. Applies for any language. Also what you would see in the first chapter of most programming books.
programming noob: Hey I just attended my first programming lesson earlier!
.NET Veteran: Oh? What can you do?
programming noob: I could make a dialog box pop up which says "Hello World!" !!!
.NET Veteran: lmao.. hey guys! look.. check out this "hello world" programmer

Console.WriteLine("Hello World")
hello world by The Black Jack October 26, 2006

Hello World

A common program written to demostrate the syntax of a programming language.
// Hello World In Java!
class HelloWorld()
{
public static void main(String args)
{
System.out.println("Hello world");
}
}
Hello World by peterson June 18, 2004

hello world

A typical sample programming application that once written, demonstrates complete mastery of choice language, particularly in subclassing and, of course, database API's.
Dude, I spent 6 months developing this AI-based 3-tier search engine for this meeting, and Jon shows up with another great "Hello World" program and blows my ass away. Again.
hello world by 3 January 23, 2004
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