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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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Zero

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A small 2006 esoteric language by Seirian J. Pardoe, known today only from a single two-dimensional 99 Bottles of Beer program. Its Visual Basic interpreter has been lost.

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ZOWIE

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Chris Pressey's 2009 esoteric machine language with a single MOV instruction, in which every operation, even structured loops, is triggered by writing to a memory-mapped register.

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Zonnon

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An ETH Zurich research language in the Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon line, built for .NET, that replaces class inheritance with definitions and aggregated implementations and makes concurrency part of objects through active objects and syntax-controlled dialogs.

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Zope Page Templates

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Zope's attribute-based HTML/XML template language, made up of TAL, TALES and METAL, which keeps templates valid markup that designers can open in ordinary web editors.

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Z notation

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A formal specification language built on typed set theory and first-order logic, created by Jean-Raymond Abrial in 1977 and refined at Oxford into one of the most influential formal methods of the 1980s and 1990s.

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