Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:28, 22 March 2008

Revision as of 00:01, 29 March 2008

Line 1:

'''''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.<ref> {{cite article

| url = http://www.th-soft.com/zzJargon/R.htm#Real_Programmer

| title = Real Programmer

| work = The New Hacker's Dictionary

| date = [[July 27]][[1993]]

| author = Eric S. Raymond, editor

| accessdate = 2008-03-28

}} </ref> Many subsequent documents pay homage or mimic its subject.<ref> {{cite journal

| url = http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/so/&toc=comp/mags/so/1995/06/s6toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/52.469755

| author = Ian Gorton

| title = Real Programmers Do Use Delphi

| journal = IEEE Software

| volume = 12

| issue = 6

| pages = 8-12

| publisher = [[IEEE Computer Society]]

| date = November 1995

| accessdate = 2008-03-28

}} </ref><ref> {{cite web

| url = http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/afs-paper.ps

| title = The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age

| author = Erik Brunvand

| date = [[October 15]][[1996]]

| format = [[PostScript]]

| pages = 4

| accessdate = 2008-03-28

}} </ref><ref> {{cite web

| url = http://www.suslik.org/Humour/Computer/Langs/real_prog2.html

| title = More About Real Programmers

| accessdate = 2008-03-28

}} </ref>

==References==

{{reflist}}

==External links==