class HelloWorldApp {
         public static void main(String[] args) {
            System.out.println("Hello World!");
         }
      }

##</code><code>##

print "Hello World\n";

##</code><code>##

say "Hello World";

##</code><code>##

: >Well, if that's your goal, you're gonna have to work a little harder.
: >I sent this out last week, but it never made it off my machine.  It's
: >50 characters, counting the final newline.
: >
: >    main(){system("perl -pe 's/\\w+/reverse$&/eg'");}
: >
: >It's almost readable, too.
: >
: >Larry Wall
:
: Well, if we're allowed to write our own interpreters then yours is
: easy to beat!
:
:     main(){system("a");}
:
: 20 characters! (Not counting the final newline.)
:
: You haven't heard of my interpreter "a"?  Well it just so happens
: that, without any command line arguments, it filters stdin to stdout
: in a manner that is identical to any of the valid entries to this
: competition, like your entry above for example.  :-)
:
: John Ellson

Well, hey, I said you'd have to work a *little* harder, not a lot harder.  :-)

Larry

##</code><code>##

1  Ton Hospel                 $ 4,384,000.00 (10/13)
2  Rick Klement               $ 3,712,000.00 (12/13)
3  Eugene van der Pijll       $ 3,540,000.00 (10/13)
4  Stephen Turner             $ 1,955,200.00 (11/13)
5  Mtv Europe                 $ 1,837,040.00 (9/13)

##</code><code>##

sub
b{[@b=(abs||No,bottle."s"x!!++$_,of,beer),on,the,wall]}print
"@{+b},\n@b,\nTake one down, pass it around,\n@{+b}.\n"
for-pop||-99..-1

##</code><code>##

: OK.  Still, it'd be nice to get anonymous scalars somehow.

The Huffman encoding of that is do{\my$x}.

##</code><code>##

Golfing Technique                     Inventor           Year
-----------------                     --------           ----
@{[]}  aka baby cart                  The Larry or       1994
                                      The Schwartz
}{     aka eskimo greeting            The Abigail        late 1990s
~~     aka inchworm                   ???
~-     aka inchworm-on-a-stick        The Hospel         2002
$_ x= boolean expression              The Larry          early 1990s
y///c aka Abigail's Length Horror     The Hall           1996
stuff value into $\ for printing      The van der Pijll  2001
}for(...){ variation of eskimo        The Hospel         2001
--$| magical flip-flop                The Hospel         2002
\$h{X} is one less than ++$h{X}
       aka Thelen's Device            The Thelen         2002
-i and $^I for data value             The Sperling       2002
Control @- via regex parens aka       The ySas           2008
ySas' device, see [id://851128]