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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Suzie COBOL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="surf.html" title="surf"/><link rel="next" href="swab.html" title="swab"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Suzie COBOL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="surf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="swab.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Suzie-COBOL"/><dt xmlns="" id="Suzie-COBOL"><b>Suzie COBOL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/soo´zee koh´bol/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [IBM: prob.: from Frank Zappa's &#8216;Suzy Creamcheese&#8217;]
<span class="grammar">n.</span> 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)
&#8216;Sammy Cobol&#8217; or (in some non-IBM circles) &#8216;Cobol
Charlie&#8217;. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [proposed] Meta-name for any <a href="../C/code-grinder.html"><i class="glossterm">code grinder</i></a>,
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