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Real Programmers Don't Write In APL, Unless The Whole Program Can Be Written In One Line.
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Real programmers don't write in APL, unless the whole program can be
written in one line.
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APL programmers do it in a line.
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 write in COBOL. COBOL is for COmmon Business Oriented Laymen who can run neither a buiness or a real program.
Real programmers know that good human factors design requires only the application of common sense.
Besides, no one cares about users. The program is written for aesthetic beauty....
Real Programmers Don't Write Games!
REAL programmers write 4K GUIs.
one-liner wars n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noi and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set.
A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados....
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.
We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity.
Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals....