3 ms·
It's important not to glamorize the sufferings of the ancients. 1982 was also the year that gave us "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL" (http://web.mit.edu/hum
by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
It's important not to glamorize the sufferings of the ancients.
1982 was also the year that gave us "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL" (http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers) and "The Story of Mel" (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html) would appear just one year later.
A selected quote from the latter:
"""
Real Programmers write in FORTRAN.
Maybe they do now,
in this decadent era of
Lite beer, hand calculators, and "user-friendly" software
"""