COBOL fingers

/koh'bol fing'grz/ 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.

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-22)