[Crinus]

Oh, interesting. I suspected it might be from an older language, but i expected Algol, not FORTRAN :-P.

Personally i associate it with Pascal because i first saw it on an IRC channel's topic back in the mid-90s :-).

[mcguire]

If it's a stupid programming joke, you can probably blame it on FORTRAN. COBOL programmers don't have senses of humor.