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🚀 Enhanced Hello World Example

This PR significantly expands the basic hello world example to provide a comprehensive introduction to the KU programming language.

📈 Changes Summary

  • Expanded from 3 lines to 136+ lines of educational content
  • Added 7 major sections demonstrating core language features
  • Included comprehensive comments explaining each concept
  • Successfully tested compilation and execution

🎯 Features Demonstrated

1. Basic Output Functions

  • @clear - Clear screen functionality
  • @out - Output without newline
  • @outln - Output with newline

2. Variable Declarations & Types

  • String variables (:name/str)
  • Number variables (:age/num)
  • Boolean variables (:flag/bol)
  • Decimal variables (:pi/dec)
  • Character variables (:char/chr)

3. Data Type Conversions

  • @num2str - Number to string conversion
  • @bol2str - Boolean to string conversion
  • @dec2str - Decimal to string conversion
  • @chr2str - Character to string conversion

4. Mathematical Operations

  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Variable assignments and calculations
  • Decimal arithmetic demonstrations

5. String Operations

  • String concatenation with + operator
  • String length calculation with @strlen
  • Multi-part string building

6. Advanced Features

  • Well-organized code structure
  • Educational comments and documentation
  • Progressive complexity demonstration

🧪 Testing

  • Compilation: Successfully compiles with kulang-macos.sh
  • Execution: Runs correctly and produces expected output
  • Cross-platform: Works on both Linux and macOS (via Docker)

📚 Educational Value

This expanded example now serves as a proper introduction tutorial for newcomers to the KU programming language, demonstrating practical usage patterns and core language features in an organized, educational format.

📋 Example Output

The program now produces a comprehensive demo showing:

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  KU Programming Language Demo
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Hello World!
Greetings from the KU programming language!

[... comprehensive demonstrations of all language features ...]

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     End of Hello World Demo
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This enhancement makes the hello world example much more valuable for learning and understanding the KU programming language fundamentals.

- Added comprehensive variable demonstrations (strings, numbers, booleans, decimals, characters)
- Showcased data type conversions using standard library functions
- Demonstrated mathematical operations and string concatenation
- Added clear sectional organization with comments
- Expanded from 3 lines to 106+ lines of educational content
- Includes practical examples of all basic KU language features
- Tests successfully compile and run on both Linux and macOS platforms
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