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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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Run BASIC

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Run BASIC is Carl Gundel's 2007 web-programming dialect of Liberty BASIC that hides HTTP entirely - no GET, no POST, no CGI, no session code - so a classic line-numbered-style BASIC program with INPUT and PRINT statements becomes, unmodified in spirit, an interactive multi-page web application

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SALT

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Speech Application Language Tags let developers bolt voice input and output onto ordinary HTML and XML pages; Microsoft-led industry consortium backing gave it real products, but the W3C's preference for VoiceXML left it a historical footnote

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RosAsm

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RosAsm - 'the Specific Assembler' - is Rene Tournois's self-hosting, all-in-one Win32 x86 assembler: a single GPL executable combining assembler, source-level debugger, disassembler and resource editor, built to produce PE files directly with no separate linker step and no C-like HLL constructs

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REBOL/Core

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REBOL/Core is the free, graphics-free edition of Carl Sassenrath's REBOL - a sub-300-kilobyte, no-install interpreter with dozens of native datatypes, PARSE and built-in Internet protocols that was 'designed for servers and non-graphical applications', distinguished from the GUI-carrying REBOL/View and the paid REBOL/Command since the product line split around 2000 and still shipped today as an explicit build target of the open-source Rebol 3 forks

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S-PLUS

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S-PLUS was the commercial statistical computing environment built on Bell Labs' S language, dominant in econometrics and biostatistics before its open-source cousin R displaced it and TIBCO retired the product in January 2026

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