#Answer 46 - [E](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(programming_language))

 #ah="*#[.>]trac";cat<<
 #&&alert 
 println("Hello World!")#\

Distance 7.

I haven't actually run this. It may be that `#` comments must only have whitespace in front of them, in which case this is invalid, but I really doubt that.