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- South Australia. 5159.
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- Subject: Real Programmers
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- Real Programmers disdain structured programming. Structured
- programming is for compulsive neurotics who were prematurely toilet-trained.
- They wear neckties and carefully line up sharp pencils on an otherwise clear
- desk.
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- Real Programmers don't believe in schedules. Planners make
- schedules. Managers firm up schedules. Frightened coders strive to meet
- schedules. Real programmers ignore schedules.
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- Real programmers don't bring brown-bag lunches. If the vending
- machine sells it, they eat it. If the vending machine doesn't sell it, they
- don't eat it. Vending machines don't sell quiche.
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- Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to
- write, it should be hard to understand.
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- Real programmers don't document. Documentation is for simps who
- can't read the listings or object deck.
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- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Cavemen drew flowcharts
- and look how much good it did them.
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- Real programmers don't eat quiche. In fact, real programmers don't
- know how to spell quiche. They eat twinkles and szechuan food.
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- 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.
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- Real programmers don't write application programs. They program
- right down to the bare metal. Application programming is for feebs who can't
- do system programming.
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- Real programmers don't write in APL, unless the whole program can
- be written on one line.
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- Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers
- write in BASIC, after the age of 12.
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- Real programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for wimpy
- applications programmers.
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- Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe-
- stress freaks and crystallography weenies.
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- Real programmers don't write in LISP. Only faggot programs contain
- more parenthesis than actual code.
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- 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.
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- Real programmers don't write in PL/1. PL/1 is for programmers who
- can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
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- Real programmers don't write in "C". There has to be something
- wrong with a language who's next generation gets a lower grade then its prior.
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- Real programmers write in the machine's native binary code, ASM
- macros are those who can't divide HEX numbers in their head.
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- Real programmers don't write specs - users should consider
- themselves lucky to get any programs at all and take what they get.
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- Real programmers like vending-machine popcorn. Coders pop it in
- the microwave oven. Real programmers use the heat from the CPU. They can tell
- which jobs are running from the rate of popping.
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- Real programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are
- around at 9am, it's because they were up all night.
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- Real programmers scorn floating-point arithmetic. The decimal
- point was invented for pansy bed wetters who are unable to think big.
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- Real programmers' programs never work right the first time.
- But if you throw them on the machine, they can be patched into working in `only
- a few' 30-hour debugging sessions.
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- Programmer Defined:
- Programmer n.
- 1. One who claims or appears to be engaged in the perpetration of
- programs.
- 2. The systems analyst's diplomatic attache at the alien court of
- the CPU.
- 3. One engaged in a practical, nonsystematic study of the halting
- problem.
- 4. "A harmless druge."-Lord Bowden, 1953. That ought to clear
- things up.....
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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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