May 15, 2003

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); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing. I refuse to type in all that source code again; it would give me COBOL fingers!

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:53 AM

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