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// 1957 - FORTRAN WRITE(*,*) 'Hello, World!' // 1972 - C printf("Hello, World!\n"); // 1995 - Java System.out.println("Hello!"); // 2015 - Rust println!("Hello, World!");
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HaPyLi

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A small Lisp-flavoured functional language whose only backend is Whitespace, written by a programmer with nothing to do at work, and one of the rare high-level languages built for an esoteric target that were actually used to write real programs.

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HackVM

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A minimal stack-based virtual machine and single-character instruction language, published as Hack VM at hacker.org, whose 28 single-character opcodes exist mainly so that puzzle solvers can hand-write tiny programs for the site's programming challenges.

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hackMongo

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A locally extended dialect of Mongo, the FORTRAN-77 astronomical plotting package written by John Tonry, adding variables, loops and conditionals to a graphics command language - and, despite its name, having nothing whatsoever to do with the MongoDB database.

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GWScript

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A C-like proprietary scripting language, also written gws or GW-Script, embedded in the German end-to-end monitoring suite GW-TEL INFRA-XS and used to drive synthetic transactions for load testing, quality assurance and service level management.

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Gri

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A command-driven language for scientific illustration, written by oceanographer Dan Kelley to make publication-quality PostScript graphs reproducibly from a text file rather than from a mouse.

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