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we used to think there were more lines of COBOL in the universe than any other language

Is that because you need almost seven hundred lines of COBOL just to print "hello world"? ;-) See http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/hworld.html (well, maybe it's not 700 after all)

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Re^3: shameful admission
by Steve_p (Priest) on Jun 16, 2004 at 03:50 UTC

    No, it can be done with much less. The following will torture many a soul.

            0000-MAIN.
            CALL 'printf'
                USING 'Hello, World'
            END-CALL.

            EXIT.

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Re^3: shameful admission
by bibo (Pilgrim) on Jun 15, 2004 at 17:45 UTC
    lol!

    yeah, that was exactly what i was thinking!

    --bibo

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