"Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, Oregon, USA. It was 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]
The article compares and contrasts real programmers, who use punch cards and write programs in FORTRAN or assembly language, with modern-day "quiche eaters" who use programming languages such as Pascal which support structured programming and impose restrictions meant to prevent or minimize common bugs due to inadvertent programming logic errors. Also mentioned are feats such as the inventor of the Cray-1 supercomputer toggling in[5] the first operating system for the CDC 7600 through the front panel without notes when it was first powered on.
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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 15, 1996). "The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age" (PostScript). p. 4. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ "More About Real Programmers". Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ Toggling in refers to setting an array of toggle switches or rocker switches which supplement program memory
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