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A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement: Real Programmers write in FORTRAN. - the first lines of The

• cestith 4y ago
  That line was included in more than one post. There are also multiple posts from that time period which said exactly the opposite. It was an ongoing joke, raised to somewhat of an art form. https://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html https://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/RPDEQ.html http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/RPDEQ.html https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080419225755/http://www.suslik.org/Humour/Computer/Langs/real_prog2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080419225755/http://www.suslik... Old magazines, BBSes, Usenet, and mailing lists are full of this sort of humor. https://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/project.html https://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/project.html