The Formal Letter

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The Formal Letter, sometimes simply called Formal, is a joke esolang that consists in an extremely formal letter from the programmer to the actual program requesting a specific output. It was created by Batata.

Examples

Print "Hello, World!"

Dear program,

I do not know if you can observe my needs in this code, but I need a favor from you. Therefore, I would be
extremely grateful if you had the ability and consequently changed the final output of the program to the simple
phrase "Hello, World!" for the purpose of starting/continuing/ending the program itself.

Sincerely,
The Programmer. 

Cat

Dear program,

I am sending you the following input: [Insert input here]
I kindly ask you to reproduce this same input in order to transform your own output into this input.

Sincerely,
The programmer.

Quine

Dear program,

I have a somewhat specific task for you: I kindly ask you to write your output so that it resembles
perfectly with your own source code.

Sincerely,
The Programmer.