@MIT-MC:eem@MIT-SYLVESTER (04/22/84)
From: Evangelos Milios <eem@sylvester> Real Programmers don't write specs - users should consider themselves lucky to get any programs at all and like what they get. Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. Real Programmers don't write application programs. They program right down on the bare metal. Application programming is for febs who can't do systems programming. Real Programmers don't eat quiche. In fact, they don't know how to spell quiche. They live on Twinkies, Doritos, Coke and Szechewan food. Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are up at 9am, it is because they stayed up all night. Real Programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after the age of 12. Real Programmers don't write in PL/1. PL/1 is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room. Real Programmers don't document. Documentation is for simps who can't read the listings of the object code. Real Programmers don't write in PASCAL or BLISS or ADA or any of those PINKO computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories. (by Peter S Hill, NCA Corp.) Elpizw na diaskedasate. Einai apo ta liga petuximena amerikanika asteia. ...Vaggelis.