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.