HA, "methods". This was the late 50's, kiddo. OO was fifteen years off... hell, high level languages were not even there yet. You were lucky if your computer

HA, "methods". This was the late 50's, kiddo. OO was fifteen years off... hell, high level languages were not even there yet. You were lucky if your computer had a keyboard. Your precious "unit tests" would have also been written in hex, and "Melanie's" carefully factored code would spend most of its time thrashing the stack, if the LGP-30 had one. And it didn't. Anyway, to understand the context of this article, you need to read the "parent post" called "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal": http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/real.programmers.html http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/real.programmers.html And to understand that, check on the grandparent, not a post but a book: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Dont_Eat_Quiche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Dont_Eat_Quiche).