Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Inc, Wilsonville OR USA. It has been published as a letter to the editor in Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983. The title is a parody of the bestselling tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity Real Men Don't Eat Quiche.
The article was widely circulated on Usenet in its day and was well-known in the computer software industry.[1] Many subsequent documents pay homage or mimic its subject.[2][3][4]
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- ^ Ian Gorton (November 1995). "Real Programmers Do Use Delphi". IEEE Software. 12 (6). IEEE Computer Society: 8–12. doi:10.1109/52.469755. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ Erik Brunvand (October 151996). "The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age" (PostScript). p. 4. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "More About Real Programmers". Retrieved 2008-03-28.
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