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 “DO 10 I=1,10″ and “ABEND” (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), 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”. (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don’t “relate” to anything, and aren’t afraid of being impersonal.)

- “Real Programmers Don’t Use PASCAL” by Leo Moll

Just found the article amusing. Life in short: New job. 9 to 6 and commute from downtown so… in short life is pretty much all work these days or well other odds and ends. I even woke up early on both Saturday and Sunday so I could finally get my day to day tasks done. eekkkkkkkkk.

DNRC Newsletter 58.0: Becoming a bit of a money making item instead of the hilarious piece of writing it used to be. tsk tsk.