Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

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 15 1996). "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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[2] 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.

[3] Erik Brunvand (October 15 1996). "The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age" (PostScript). p. 4. Retrieved 2008-03-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[4] "More About Real Programmers". Retrieved 2008-03-28.

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