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- REAL PROGRAMMERS
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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 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 write applications 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 eat quiche. They eat twinkies and szechwan food. (Do
- not go to eat szechwan food with a group of real programmers unless you
- are prepared to argue bitterly over the last spring roll.)
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- Real Programmers don't write COBOL. COBOL is for wimpy application
- programmers.
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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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- Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and
- crystallography weenies.
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- Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If they are around at 9 AM, it's because
- they were up all night.
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- Real Programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC
- ... after the age of twelve.
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- Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide
- whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
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- Real Programmers don't play tennis or any other sport which 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 computer room.
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- Real Programmers don't do documentation. Documentation is for simps who can't
- figure out the listing.
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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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