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This reminds me of the following piece from http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real5.htm http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real5.htm "Allegedly, one Real Programmer m

This reminds me of the following piece from http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real5.htm http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real5.htm "Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter." BTW, I would be very grateful if someone could verify this.

ColinWright 15y ago
It appears that the story is first mentioned in a letter by Ed Post of Tektronix to the editor of Datamation. A transcript can be found here: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html Every other instance of the quotation seems to reference that letter (if anything), and the letter appears to contain no further references.