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• Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually no programmers write in BASIC after the age of twelve.
• Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.
• BASIC programmers GOTO it.
• It still brings to mind the question of what (if anything) can be done to show the media that 'cyberpunks' aren't just a bunch of pimple-faced geeks who sit around trying to break into bank computers or whatever.
  -- James Hartman (phaedrus@flatline.UUCP) But cyberpunks *are* a bunch of pimple-faced geeks who sit around trying to break into bank computers or whatever....
• Basic: Language of choice by non-programmers.
• BASIC is to computer programming as Ripple is to wine.
• Real programmers don't program in PASCAL. PASCAL is for pencil-pushing pinstripes who think structure is good and spontaneous hacks are bad.
• BASIC programmers do it all over the place.