COBOL fingers /koh'bol fing'grz/ n.
Reported from Sweden, a (hypothetical) disease one might get
from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond
all reason (see candygrammar);
thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes
one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing. "I
refuse to type in all that source code again; it would give me
COBOL fingers!"