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A challenge that involves making a "Hello, World!" program, or other similar strings. It is recommended to avoid using exactly "Hello, World!" as many languages have builtins to print it, trivialising the challenge.

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Alphanumeric Hello World

COBOL ID DIVISION DATA DIVISION 01 HELLOWORLDBINARY 05 HE COMP PIC 9999 05 LL COMP PIC 9999 05 OCOMMA …
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Write a piece of code to output the line number of the print / output statement itself (in t...

Inspired by @squeamish ossifrage's answer with BASIC. What's in a line number? In, for instance, IBM COBOL there are (can be) arguably three source line numbers. The first (if used, it is optional) …
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Write a piece of code to output the line number of the print / output statement itself (in t...

GNU COBOL Well, they said it couldn't be done. Actually, it was I who said it couldn't be done. Now it's done, and an obsolete language feature re-implemented using the method applied. The question …
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Obfuscation Challenge

COBOL (IBM Enterprise COBOL) ID If shown that, very close to 100% of IBM Mainframe COBOL programmers would say "that's not even a program, that won't compile!". The more experience they have, th …
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