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COBOL was created in 1959. The term software engineering was coined in the 1960s. So it existed for most of COBOL's lifetime.

• freepor 7y ago
  The term teleportation was coined awhile back too.
  • eesmith 7y ago
    The term "software engineering", at least as used by Margaret H. Hamilton in the 1960s, was used to describe existing practices. "Teleportation" was not.