May 15, 2003

like kicking dead whales down the beach

adj.

Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. Well, you could write a C compiler in COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the beach. See also fear and loathing.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:40 AM

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