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• Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to change clothes.
  Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room....
• Trying to program in MS-DOS is like trying to play tennis in a closet.
• Real software engineers like writing their own compilers, preferably in PROLOG (they also like writing them in unimplemented languages, but it turns out to be difficult to actually RUN these).
• Real software engineers write in languages that have not actually been implemented for any machine, and for which only the formal spec (in BNF) is available.
  This keeps them from having to take any machine dependencies into account....
• On Line - a statement shouted at tennis judges in response to serves being called out.
• ar out v. [University of York, England] To replace a user's encrypted password in /etc/passwd with a single asterisk.
  Under Unix this is not a legal encryption of any password...