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.

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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. Machine dependencies make real software
engineers very uneasy.

Real software engineers don't write in ADA, because the standards bodies have not quite decided on a formal spec yet.
Real software engineers like C's structured constructs, but they are suspicious of it because they have heard that it lets you get "close to the machine.
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 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....
Real software engineers don't program in assembler. They become queasy at the very thought.
If it doesn't have recursive function calls, Real Software Engineers don't program in it.

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.

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