In response to many inquiries, may we point out that the label, Digitaria sanguinalis, on the cover of the May Communications is the botanical name for crab grass, which according to Webster is a grass with creeping or decumbent stems which root freely at the nodes. It has been said that COBOL, like crab grass, is here to stay. | m.r. kellingtons, communications of the acm, letters to the editor, june 1962.

40 years later cobol got the label diet. tiny has the story. i give the credits to brian foote for: xml as diet cobol.

.... Eventually, Youngblood opened five boxes, nested Russian-doll style, and discovered an iPod shuffle music player engraved with his name. He pressed Play and heard the voice of Mark Kern, president and chief executive of online video game maker Red 5 Studios Inc., talking about Youngblood's past work on games and inviting him to a Web site to learn more about Red 5. | cw

eurosclerosis: symptoms were an evident lack of dynamism, innovation and competitiveness in comparison with Japan and the United States. | ert