COmmon Business Oriented Language

• Early business programming language
• Old computer language
• Computer programming language
• Venerable computer language
• Language linked to the Y2K problem
• In-demand programming language, pre-Y2K
• Language in Y2K news
• Early computer language
• Computer-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."