--Originally published at Codebuster
Almost like a fraternity initiation, hello world is the first program the majority of us creates in a new language, because it is the most basic of the commands. Some people actually judge the quality of the programming language by seeing how easy is it to do this “Hello World”, which would mean, by this standard, that python is top notch.
We can do this in an editor and then run it:
Or we can even do this simple passing of the torch in the shell mode: