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{{short description|1983 essay about programming}}

"'''Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal'''" (a parody of the bestselling 1982 tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity ''[[Real Men Don't Eat Quiche]]'') is an essay about [[computer programming]] written by Ed Post<ref name=ryerson>{{cite web

|url = http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html

|title = Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

|author = Post, Ed

|date = July 1983

|publisher = Originally in [[Datamation]]

|archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/659yh1oSh?url=http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html

|archivedate = 2012-02-02

|url-status = live

}}</ref> (a parody of the bestselling 1982 tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity ''"...&nbsp;[[Real ProgrammersMen useDon't FORTRAN.Eat Quiche]]'') Eatersis usean PASCAL&nbsp;..."''</ref>essay about [[computer programming]] written by Ed Post of [[Tektronix, Inc.]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_S4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34 ''Note:'' Graphic Software Systems was a 1981 spin-off of Tektronix]</ref> and published in July 1983 as a [[letter to the editor]] in ''[[Datamation]]''.<ref group="lower-alpha">Volume 29 number 7</ref>

==History==