Editing PowerBASIC (section)

===Hello world===
[["Hello, World!" program|Hello world]] is used to give a very small example of the [[syntax (programming languages)|syntax]] used by a programming language and is often the smallest possible program for any given programming language.

Here is an example of a PBCC hello world program. By default PBCC creates a console window at runtime for displaying output. The use of Waitkey$ in this example prevents the console window from automatically closing until the operator sees the displayed text.

<syntaxhighlight lang="vbscript">
Function PBMain

  Print "Hello, World!"
  Waitkey$

End Function
</syntaxhighlight>

Here is the PBWin version, which displays a Windows "dialog" message box.

<syntaxhighlight lang="vbscript">
Function PBMain

  MsgBox "Hello, World!"

End Function
</syntaxhighlight>