Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (1982)
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Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (1982)
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#3Today this is true for a more obvious reason; Pascal is legacy.
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#4> Compilers with array bounds checking (...) stifle creativity, (...) and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts.
Absolute classic. The words to live by.
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#5One of the programs closest to my heart which I use multiple times a day, "Beyond Compare" is written in PASCAL, Delphi more specifically. I know very little about PASCAL, but I know that Beyond Compare is rock solid.
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#6I did 4 years in high school.
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#7Was this written as satire back in 1982? Because it is great when read as satire.
As a real thing written by a real person, not so much.
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#8This is a great sarcasm piece that seems timeless.
"Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused."
"Real Programmers don't need comments -- the code is obvious."
"If you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing."
"At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying ``Poor George. And he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary.''
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#9Was this written as satire back in 1982? Because it is great when read as satire. As a real thing written by a real person, not so much.
http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers
Key word in the url "humor"
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#10Already amused by the comments based only on the title but not on the content:
"Real Commenters don't read the contents".