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From: charlie@milton.acs.washington.edu (Charles Geyer)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Comp.lang.cobol failed
Message-ID: <1372@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 90 04:01:31 GMT
References: <604@enea.se> <1810005@hpcll17.HP.COM>
Reply-To: charlie@milton.acs.washington.edu (Charles Geyer)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1810005@hpcll17.HP.COM> juliar@hpcll17.HP.COM (Julia Rodriguez)
writes:

> 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.  


What?  Ugh!  What trash!!  It should look simple, pure, and clean, like
this

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
  if ( printf("Hello world.\n") == EOF ) {
    exit(1);
  } else {
    exit(0);
  }
}