pan class="oak-rightParen">)</span>

<span class="oak-identifier">std</span><span class="oak-dot">.</span><span class="oak-fnName">println</span><span class="oak-leftParen">(</span><span class="oak-stringLiteral">'Hello, World!'</span><span class="oak-rightParen">)</span></code></pre><h2>Inventing Oak</h2><p>Oak came to be as an evolution of Ink, which was my first toy programming language. It was a dynamically typed scripting language that was bare (you might say <em>minimal</em>) in features, but had the 