Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

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Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Inc, Wilsonville OR USA. It has been published as a letter to the editor in Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983. The title is a parody of the bestselling tongue in cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity Real Men Don't Eat Quiche.

The article was widely circulated on Usenet in its day and was well-known in the computer software industry.[1] Many subsequent documents pay homage or mimic its subject.[2][3][4]

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  1. ^ Eric S. Raymond, editor. "Real Programmer", The New Hacker's Dictionary, July 27, 1993. Retrieved on 2008-03-28. 
  2. ^ Ian Gorton (November 1995). "Real Programmers Do Use Delphi". IEEE Software 12 (6): 8–12. IEEE Computer Society. doi:10.1109/52.469755. 
  3. ^ Erik Brunvand (October 15, 1996). The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age (PostScript) 4. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
  4. ^ More About Real Programmers. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.

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