meaning of like kicking dead whales down the beach

1. like kicking dead whales down the beach humour> Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First popularised by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBMs mainframe OSes. "Well, you *could* write a C compiler in COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the beach. " [Jargon File]

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