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- The Rules of REAL Programmers
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- BASIC is a high-level languish.
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- REAL programmers write artificial intelligence in assembly!
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- `Software Engineers' are wimpy turds who write application programs with WIMP
- interfaces for the general user.
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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 can get.
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- REAL programmers don't comment their code. If another programmer needs comments
- to understand the code, he shouldn't be programming in the first place. And
- if it was hard to write it should be hard to understand.
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- REAL programmers don't write application programs; they program right down on
- the bare metal. Application programming is for feebs who can't do systems
- programming.
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- REAL programmers don't eat quiche. In fact, real programmers don't know how to
- SPELL quiche. They eat Twinkies, and Szechwan food.
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- REAL programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for wimply 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 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 any real programmers 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 12.
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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 Data Processing room.
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- REAL programmers don't document. Documentation is for simps who can't read the
- listings or the object deck.
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- REAL programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of those pinko
- computer science languages.
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- Strong typing is for people with weak memories.