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• 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....
• 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....
• Real World: n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `{COBOL}', `RPG', `{IBM}', `DBASE', etc.
  Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices....
• Real World n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `COBOL', `RPG', `IBM', `DBASE', etc.
  Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices....
• 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}....
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• uit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• 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....