Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal: Difference between revisions

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"'''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

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}} ''"...&nbsp;Real Programmers use FORTRAN. Quiche Eaters use PASCAL&nbsp;..."''</ref> aboutof [[computerTektronix, programmingInc.]]<ref>''Note:'' writtenGraphic bySoftware EdSystems Postwas a 1981 spin-off of [[Tektronix, Inc[https://books.google.com/books?id=_S4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34]]</ref>, 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 name=Raymond>{{cite web