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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....
• Suzie COBOL: /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
  A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English....
• 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
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• 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....
• flowchart:: [techspeak] n. An archaic form of visual control-flow specification employing arrows and `speech balloons' of various shapes.
  Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and associate them with {COBOL} programmers, {card walloper}s, and other lower forms of life....