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"'''Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal'''"<ref> The title is a parody of the bestselling 1982 tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity ''[[Real Men Don't Eat Quiche]]''</ref> is an essay
| url = http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html
| title = Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
| author = Post, Ed
| date = July, 1983
| publisher = [[Datamation]]
| archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/659yh1oSh
| archivedate= 2012-02-02
}}</ref> about [[computer programming]] written by Ed Post of [[Tektronix, Inc.]], and published in July 1983 as a [[letter to the editor]] in ''[[Datamation]]''.<ref>Volume 29 number 7</ref>
Widely circulated on [[Usenet]] in its day, and well-known in the computer software industry<ref> {{cite article
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