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• Real computer scientists admire ADA for its overwhelming aesthetic value but they find it difficult to actually program in it, as it is much too large to implement.
  Most computer scientists don't notice this because they are still arguing over what else to add to ADA....
• Real computer scientists regret the existence of PL/1, PASCAL and LISP.
  ADA is getting there, but it is still allows people to make mistakes....
• Real software engineers admire PASCAL for its discipline and Spartan purity, but they find it difficult to actually program in.
  They don't tell this to their friends, because they are afraid it means that they are somehow Unworthy....
• Ada programmers do it by committee.
• Ada programmers do it in packages.
• Real programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of these pinky computer science languages.
  Strong typing is for people with weak memories....
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....