Crossword-Solution: COBOL 5 letters, 59 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Language in Y2K news 1 answer
Computer-language acronym 1 answer
Early alternative to FORTRAN 1 answer
Early business language 1 answer
Early business programming language 1 answer
Early database-oriented language 1 answer
Early programming acronym 1 answer
Early programming language designed to read like English 1 answer
Early programming language used in commerce 1 answer
FORTRAN alternative 1 answer
FORTRAN's cousin 1 answer
Fortran relative 1 answer
In-demand programming language, pre-Y2K 1 answer
Language created in 1959 1 answer
Computer language used in business 1 answer
Language in which many Y2K-noncompliant programs were written 1 answer
Language linked to the Y2K problem 1 answer
Language of many non-Y2K-compliant programs 1 answer
Old computer language 1 answer
Old programming language 1 answer
Programmer's language 1 answer
Programming language used in government and banking 1 answer
Some computer programs are written in it 1 answer
Some programs are written in it 1 answer
Venerable computer language 1 answer
Y2K Language linked to problem 1 answer
common business-oriented language 1 answer
Early business programming language from the 1960s 1 answer
Computer language that's an acronym 1 answer
Computer language in Y2K news 1 answer
COMMON business orientated language 1 answer
A computer language acronym 1 answer
Computer-programming language 2 answers
Cousin of Fortran 2 answers
A computer language 2 answers
Early programming language 3 answers
High-level computer language 3 answers
Early computer language 3 answers
it-language 5 answers
Language columnist William 6 answers
Programming language 8 answers
A LANGUAGE DESIGNED FOR PROGRAMMING COMPUTERS 10 answers
ACRONYM COMPUTER 1940S 10 answers
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, PERHAPS 10 answers
COMPUTER programmer 10 answers
A PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE 10 answers
A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGNED FOR USE ON A SPECIFIC CLASS OF COMPUTERS 10 answers
A POPULAR PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE THAT IS RELATIVELY EASY TO LEARN 11 answers
A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE USED TO EXPRESS COMPUTER PROGRAMS AS ALGORITHMS 11 answers
COMPUTER LANGUAGE COLUMNIST WILLIAM 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COBOL (5)

Hackers believe that all COBOL programmers are {suit}s or {code grinder}s, and no self-respecting hacker will ever admit to having learned the language.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The language requires code verbose beyond all reason; thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and associate them with {COBOL} programmers, {card walloper}s, and other lower forms of life.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `{COBOL}', `RPG', `{IBM}', `DBASE', etc.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Disseminated by means contradicting and transcending the assumptions of literacy, and within a pragmatics requiring means of higher efficiency, programming languages, from Cobol and Fortran to C, C++, Lisp, or Java, are accepted for their functionality.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 65 times in crossword archives (1988–2024).