Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal: Difference between revisions

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}}</ref> the article compares and contrasts ''real programmers'', who use punch cards and write programs in [[FORTRAN]] or [[assembly language]], with modern-day "quiche eaters" who use programming languages such as [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] which support [[structured programming]] and impose restrictions meant to prevent or minimize common [[software bug|bug]]s due to inadvertent programming logic errors. Also mentioned are feats such as the inventor of the [[Cray-1]] supercomputer toggling in<ref>''Toggling in'' refers to setting an array of [[toggle switch]]es or rocker switches which supplement program memory</ref> the first operating system for the [[CDC 7600]] through the front panel without notes when it was first powered on.

The next year [[Ed Nather]]’s "''[[The realest programmerStory of all"<refMel]]'', name=usenet-1984-11-20>Mattalso Crawfordknown [http://groups.google.com/group/net.jokes/browse_thread/thread/936255290cc94a96as ''The realest programmer of all] Newsgroup: net.jokes November 20, 1984.</ref>'' [[USENET]] posting extended the theme, as have many subsequent articles,<ref>{{cite journal

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| author = Ian Gorton