COBOL fingers


COBOL fingers

(jargon)/koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, ahypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL.The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (seecandygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too muchin COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by theendless typing.

COBOL fingers

A tongue-in-cheek malady that afflicts COBOL programmers. COBOL is a very verbose language, and people have to type more words writing COBOL source code to accomplish the same task than in other languages. See COBOL.