COBOL /koh'bol/ n.
[COmmon Business-Oriented Language]
(Synonymous with evil.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language
used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on
dinosaur mainframes. Hackers believe that all COBOL
programmers are suits or code grinders, and no
self-respecting hacker will ever admit to having learned the
language. Its very name is seldom uttered without ritual
expressions of disgust or horror. One popular one is Edsger W.
Dijkstra's famous observation that "The use of COBOL cripples the
mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal
offense." (from "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal
Perspective") See also fear and loathing, software r
[COmmon Business-Oriented Language]
(Synonymous with evil.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language
used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on
dinosaur mainframes. Hackers believe that all COBOL
programmers are suits or code grinders, and no
self-respecting hacker will ever admit to having learned the
language. Its very name is seldom uttered without ritual
expressions of disgust or horror. One popular one is Edsger W.
Dijkstra's famous observation that "The use of COBOL cripples the
mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal
offense." (from "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal
Perspective") See also fear and loathing, software r
Related:
- 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.... - The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)... - The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E. W. Dijkstra... - The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5... - Quote #154
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.
-- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975.... - BASIC /bay'-sic/ n.
A programming language,
originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system
in the early 1960
which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers.... - JCL: /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely {rude} Job Control
Language.
JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems....
