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In the PCF (Parallel Cost-Effective Framework) programming language, there isn’t a straightforward way to print “Hello World!” as it’s primarily used for parallel and distributed computing. PCF is a higher-order functional language that focuses on concurrency and communication, rather than simple output operations found in languages like Python or C++.

However, if you want to simulate the “Hello World!” behavior using I/O (which isn’t typically done in PCF), you could create a program that sends this message over a channel. Here’s an example:

chan out;  // Declare a channel

main() = 
  send out "Hello World!";  // Send the string "Hello World!" over the channel
  receive out _;  // Receive any value from the channel (ignored here)

In this PCF program, out is a channel. The send out "Hello World!" line is sending the string “Hello World!” down the channel, and the receive out _ line is receiving something from the same channel – in this case, we’re not actually using the received value, so it’s ignored (_).

Remember, PCF doesn’t have built-in I/O capabilities like console.log() or printf(). For actual output, you’d need to interface with a host language or environment that supports standard I/O operations.

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