Some computer programs are written in it

• High-level computer language
• Early business programming language
• Early computer language
• Programmer's language
• COmmon Business Oriented Language
• Computer language that's an acronym
• Early database-oriented language
• Language linked to the Y2K problem

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1960, U.S. Defense Department acronym, from "Common Business-Oriented Language."