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samedi 6 août 2005

Real Programmers

Back in the good old days — the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "fgets(inbuf,BUFSIZE,inf)" and "if (i%2==0)" (they actually talked in capital letters sometimes), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers -- they're so impersonal."

But, as usual, times change...followed on:Real Programmers