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display "Hello world!".
stop run.</lang>
Using relaxed compilation rules, the hello program can become a single DISPLAY statement.
{{works with|GnuCOBOL}}
<lang cobol>display"Hello, world".</lang>
<pre>prompt$ cobc -x -frelax-syntax -free hello.cob
hello.cob: 1: Warning: PROGRAM-ID header missing - assumed
hello.cob: 1: Warning: PROCEDURE DIVISION header missing - assumed
prompt$ ./hello
Hello, world</pre>
''Note how COBOL can handle the DISPLAY reserved word without a space before the quoted string, the quote being a compile time scan delimiter. The full stop period after the single statement is still mandatory, at least for GnuCOBOL and a clean compile to executable.''
=={{header|Cobra}}==
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