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Real Programmers Don't Document. Documentation Is For Simpletons Who Can't Read Listings Or The Object Code From The Dump.
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Real programmers don't document.
Documentation is for simpletons who can't read listings or the object
code from the dump.
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Real programmers don't document their code. The brilliance of the program itself is self-evident, and anyone who can't figure it out isn't a real programmer.
0442 Can you read a machine dump? 0443 Can you disassemble code in your head?
-- from THE HACKER TEST...
RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....
Real users don't read documentation.
Real Programmer n. [indirectly, from the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche"] A particular sub-variety of hacke
one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience....
Real programmers don't document; if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
) -- Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>...
REAL programmers write self-modifying code.
Real programmers don't program in LISP. Any language with more parenthesis than actual code is for airheaded wienies who can't write real programs.