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		Crinus on March 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) Oh, interesting. I suspected it might be from an older language, but i expected Algol, not FORTRAN :-P. Personally i associate it with Pascal because i first saw it on an IRC channel's topic back in the mid-90s :-).

mcguire on March 28, 2019 [–]

If it's a stupid programming joke, you can probably blame it on FORTRAN. COBOL programmers don't have senses of humor.

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