Suzie COBOL

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Suzie COBOL: /soo´zee koh´bol/ prob. n.

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 J. Random Hacker.

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