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# 1531
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN.  FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and
crystallography weenies.  FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.
 
# 1532
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I.  PL/I is for programmers who can't
decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
 
# 1533
Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.
 
# 1534
Real programs don't eat cache.
 
# 1535
Real Programs don't use shared text.  Otherwise, how can they use functions
for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
 
# 1536
Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness.
This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a
computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package.
 
# 1537
Real software engineers don't like the idea of some inexplicable and
greasy hardware several aisles away that may stop working at any
moment.  They have a great distrust of hardware people, and wish that
systems could be virtual at *___all* levels.  They would like personal
computers (you know no one's going to trip over something and kill your
DFA in mid-transit), except that they need 8 megabytes to run their
Correctness Verification Aid packages.
 
# 1538
Real software engineers work from 9 to 5, because that is the way the job is
described in the formal spec.  Working late would feel like using an
undocumented external procedure.
 
# 1539
Real Users are afraid they'll break the machine -- but they're never
afraid to break your face.
 
# 1540
Real Users find the one combination of bizarre input values that shuts
down the system for days.
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