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• 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....
• JCL: /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely {rude} Job Control Language.
  JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems....
• 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})...
• code grinder: n. 1. A {suit}-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors.
  In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie....
• card walloper: n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do stupid things like print people's paychecks.
  Compare {code grinder}. See also {{punched card}}, {eighty-column mind}....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• 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....
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....
• JCL /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language.
  JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems....