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While Hello World is nice, something a bit more involved could give you more insight. Among many people, Amit Singh (of MacFuse and Mac OS X Internals fame) did this with the Towers of Hanoi: http://www.kernelthread.com/projects/hanoi/ (111 Hanoi implementations total).

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One of my favourites is 99 Bottles, with just under 1,500 implementations: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/abc.html - some are inspiring, but others are just plain funny.

I manage a repo that has the bare bones of a roguelike in many languages.

It's a little more involved than a Hello World in that it needs to handle input, output, state etc.

I could always use more languages if anybody wants to pitch in.

https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL

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