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• COBOL fingers: /koh'bol fing'grz/ n. Reported from Sweden, a (hypothetical) disease one might get from coding in COBOL.
  The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see {candygrammar})...
• COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
  ) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes....
• COBOL: /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n.
  (Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on {dinosaur} mainframes....
• Price Wang's programmer was coding software. His fingers danced upon the keyboard.
  The program compiled without an error message, and the program ran like a gentle wind....
• BCPL: Beats Cobol Programming Language
• candygrammar n. A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic suga
  he term is also a play on `candygram'. COBOL, Apple's Hypertalk language, and a lot of the so-called `4GL' database languages share this property....
• COBOL: Completely Over and Beyond reason Or Logic.
• COBOL programmers are destined to code COBOL for the rest of their lives, and thereafter.
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....