The first COBOL programs
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000200 ID DIVISION.
000300 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
000400 AUTHOR. CHANJIN CHUNG, WSU, DETROIT.
000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000600 MAIN-PARA.
000700 DISPLAY 'HELLO, WORLD'.
000800 STOP RUN.
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000200 ID DIVISION.
000300 PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.
000400 DATA DIVISION.
000500 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
000600 01 YYMMDD.
000700 05 YY PIC 99.
000800 05 MM PIC 99.
000900 05 DD PIC 99.
001000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
001100 MAIN-PARA.
001200 ACCEPT YYMMDD FROM DATE.
001300 DISPLAY 'HELLO, WORLD'.
001400 DISPLAY 'TODAY IS ' YY '-' MM '-' DD.
001500 STOP RUN.
000100 ID DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. ACCEPT1.
AUTHOR. CHAN
000300 DATA DIVISION.
000400 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
000500 01 WS-FIRST-NUMBER PIC 9(3).
000600 01 WS-SECOND-NUMBER PIC 9(3).
000700 01 WS-TOTAL PIC ZZZ9.
000800*
000900 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
001000 0000-MAINLINE.
001100 DISPLAY 'ENTER A NUMBER: '.
001200 ACCEPT WS-FIRST-NUMBER.
001300*
001400 DISPLAY 'ANOTHER NUMBER: '.
001500 ACCEPT WS-SECOND-NUMBER.
001600*
001700 COMPUTE WS-TOTAL = WS-FIRST-NUMBER +
001800 WS-SECOND-NUMBER.
001900 DISPLAY 'THE TOTAL IS: ' WS-TOTAL.
002000 STOP RUN.