[donatj]

Hello World in PHP is literally

    Hello World

I know no other language that elegant.

[rei_ayanami]

If programing stopped there we wouldn't have an argument, its when you design high performant code that is maintained for over 10 years etc.

[mejutoco]

From the top of my head, Javascript and Common Lisp will also work with "Hello World" (with quotes).

[donatj]

I can’t speak for Lisp, but JavaScript isn’t going to write that to standard out, it would just be a statement that didn’t do anything.

You would need something like

    import { stdout } from 'process';
    
    stdout.write("Hello World");

[mejutoco]

Fair enough. On the client (just opening dev tools) it would return the string, but as you say, it depends on what we count as valid (repl, server-side, client). Probably the closest would be

    console.log("Hello World")

[chippiewill]

Being able to do a trivial hello world doesn't make a language elegant.

[richrichardsson]

The easiest Quine imaginable!

[Karellen]

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