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, raise

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