Hello programming language

Here is another interesting programming language that I created: Hello. The reasons I have created it are:

esoteric or obfuscated programming language make it very hard (or even impossible) to create really useful programs like the "Hello World" example.
programmers that can actually program their first Hello-world example get their first programmatic satisfaction in that language. They get a sense that they understand the language
interpreters should be very easy to implement
a programming language should have as few operators defined as possible

Therefore the Hello language contains the following operands:

h which prints out "Hello World"

So here is the hello world program written in Hello. It is probably the shortest program of the kind for any language!

Unfortunately, the Hello language cannot do anything else. But, then again, when do you REALLY need to do something else? Aren't all real-world programming tasks in fact a Hello World application?

We are currently investigating adding an function that can write the 99 Bottles of beer song. Maybe the operand can be called "9". However, it would make the language less beautiful, don't you agree?

Please let me know if you have written another interesting program in Hello. I will leave as an exercise to the reader: build a program in Hello that prints out TWO copies of "Hello World".

Online Hello interpreter below; try your code

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