Language created in 1959

• Early business programming language
• Language linked to the Y2K problem
• FORTRAN alternative
• In-demand programming language, pre-Y2K
• Early programming acronym
• Computer language that's an acronym
• Some computer programs are written in it
• Programmer's 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."