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Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post of Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, Oregon USA. It was published as a letter to the editor in Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983 and was subsequently widely circulated on Usenet. The title is a parody of the bestselling tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche.

The full text is available from several sources:

• http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
• http://rixstep.com/2/2/20071015,00.shtml