Hello, World!
Example 1-1 The “Hello, World!” example.
puts stdout {Hello, World!}
=> Hello, World!
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In this example, the command is puts, which takes two arguments: an I/O stream identifier and a string. puts writes the string to the I/O stream along with a trailing newline character. There are two points to emphasize:
Arguments are interpreted by the command. In the example, stdout is used to identify the standard output stream. The use of stdout as a name is a convention employed by puts and the other I/O commands. Also, stderr is used to identify the standard error output, and stdin is used to identify the standard input. Chapter 9 describes how to open other files for I/O.
Curly braces are used to group words together into a single argument. ...
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