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COBOL fingers

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!

Courtesy of 'The Jargon File 4.4.7'
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