Early computer language

• In-demand programming language, pre-Y2K
• Language in Y2K news
• Language created in 1959
• Computer language that's an acronym
• Venerable computer language
• Computer language used in business
• High-level computer language
• Early business language
• Programming language

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