whales

whales
 n.

   See {like kicking dead whales down the beach}.
    

like kicking dead whales down the beach
whales

   <jargon, humour> Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting
   process.  First popularised by a famous quote about the
   difficulty of getting work done under one of {IBM}'s
   {mainframe} {OS}es.  "Well, you *could* write a C compiler in
   COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the
   beach."

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1997-12-23)