Suzie COBOL /soo'zee Koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: Prob. From Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] N.

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Suzie COBOL /soo'zee koh'bol/

1. [IBM: prob. from Frank
Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n. A coder straight out of training
school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain
English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid
accusations of sexism) `Sammy Cobol' or (in some non-IBM circles)
`Cobol Charlie'. 2. [proposed] Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to

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