Real Programers Don't Use Pascal

It's crazy how programmer sense of humor hasnt changed that much

11:55 "Unix is a glorified videogame" I'll write that quote down and repeat it myself every time I'll fail to do something in my linux machine.

It comes from a satirical book called "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" 🤣🤣🤣

My dad is a real programmer from this era, he turned 70 this year. I showed him this, and he agreed with everything in the article and had a good chuckle. And yes, he regularly had to fix programs directly in binary with no source code (or worse, source code that was very out of date and worthless - it was worse because you wasted a lot of time fixing it and waiting for it to compile, only to have to do the binary modification anyway later). It was common that if you were unsure about the state of the source code (meaning you have never compiled the program from source yourself and deployed that to production), to just do the direct binary modification even if source code is supposedly available - because you have less downtime that way, and unverified source code can't be trusted.

Long time C and Pascal developer here (back in the day, these days I use fancy curly-brace languages). I started in industry in '91, and this article represents what was kind of a jokey but real attitude that I myself came across, even then. To this day, I tell my work colleagues that there's nothing new under the sun, and yes a lot of what I see and hear these days is same as it's always been, only the names are changed. Great video, gave me some lol moments. I'm a self-diagnosed quiche eater, and I have been for over 30 years.

54 YO South African here. I recall that enjoying quiche was considered unmanly by supposed alphas in the late 80s (when I was in my late teens) and 90s. Accusing a man of liking quiche was a fairly common way of calling them a soy boy back then. "Real men" preferred that every meal be large quantities of meat, preferably as bloody as possible, with vegetables in the margins.

Summary: Real Programmers make sure nobody else can manage the code they wrote so you can never fire them.

My dad was a firmware programmer in the '80s and '90s. He would sometimes take home 6 inch thick printouts of hex and read through it. Every once in a while he would circle stuff in it. And that is why I never wanted to be a programmer as a kid. It wasn't until I took a cs101 class in college that I realized it could be different.

The article is not talking about DO...WHILE when it says "DO loop" A DO Loop in Fortran is a FOR Loop in other languages (and not a FOR IN Loop either, a FOR x = start TO stop in BASIC or for(init; test; step) in C/C++)

Nicklaus Wirth passed away this year, January.