# Hello World! in COBOL

**URL:** <https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/hello-world-in-cobol/5379>\
**Category:** COBOL technical questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/hello-world-in-cobol/5379 "2020-04-27T20:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![baybay4343](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@baybay4343](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/baybay4343)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/hello-world-in-cobol/5379/1 "2020-04-27T20:51:41Z")

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I’m not much of a programmer, but when I saw that the world needs COBOL programmers right now, I thought I would do my best to help out, even though I knew nothing about the language. I’ve spent way too many hours over the past two weeks trying to get my system configured just to compile and run COBOL code. It might not seem like a big deal, but seeing those two words on the system output makes me feel like I can do anything!

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/openmfproject/original/1X/433e1e12e7f5b7b57f4b78be38b0410fe6a1e876.png)

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