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The archetypal Real Programmer is [[Mel Kaye]] of the [[Royal McBee]] Computer Corporation who is immortalised in "The Story of Mel"<ref>[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html The story of Mel]</ref>, one of the most famous pieces of hacker folklore. As the story infamously puts it, "He wrote in machine code &ndash; in 'raw, unadorned, inscrutable [[hexadecimal]] numbers. Directly."'

==Modernisation of the real programmer==

Over the years, the figure of the 'real programmer' was taken up and adapted as new and more powerful programming languages were created. If actually the real programmer of the eighties "does all in [[FORTRAN]]" instead of [[Pascal (linguaggio)|Pascal]], one of the nineties "does all in [[C (linguaggio)|C]] rather than [[C++]] or [[Java (linguaggio)|Java]], or" does everything in [[Perl]] "rather than [[Python]] or [[Ruby]].

==See also==