Hello, world!

Now that you've successfully installed malb8dge, create a file called hello.mlb8 with the following contents:

;"Hello, world!"

To run this program, simply type malb8dge hello in your favorite terminal. If Hello, world! was printed to your console, then congratulations! You have written your first malb8dge program!

Note: malb8dge <file> isn't the only way to run malb8dge - an interactive shell also exists, which can be started by typing malb8dge without any arguments!

Now let's break down this program to understand what exactly is happening:

• ; is an operator (more on that later) that prints everything that comes after it to the console.
• "Hello, world!" is a string, which you probably already know from other programming languages. (If you have no programming experience, I strongly recommend immediately finding another activity to waste your precious time on.)

Great! It will almost certainly only go downhill from here on.