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From: juliar@hpcll17.HP.COM (Julia Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Comp.lang.cobol failed
Message-ID: <1810005@hpcll17.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 02:05:03 GMT
References: <604@enea.se>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP Wm E. Davidsen Jr at *IX Public Access UNIX, 
Schenectady NY writes:
> It's the only language in which "hello
> world" is longer in source than in executable, even after loading 47
> libraries and runtime features.

Here is the source for "hello world" using 1985 standard COBOL.

      identification division.
      program-id. hi-mom.
      procedure division.
          display "hi mom".

Not so bad.  

Julia Rodriguez