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• SCM: Set for Crash Mode
• Set mode=Extremely verbose
• day mode n. See phase (sense 1). Used of people only.
• And this 2-record disco set, only from K-TEL!
• Quote #412 C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. -- Bertrand Meye
• COBOL: the only programming language in which you can write a letter home to your folks and reasonably expect it to compile and run without errors.
• mode bit: n. A {flag}, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation.
  The connotations are different from {flag} bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program....
• ADA is the COBOL of the 80's.
• COBOL hackers do it by committee.