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A comment on Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (1982).

Re:Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (1982) by adolgert on Monday September 14, 2015 @02:35PM (#10216630)
"Eating quiche" used to be slang for a sexual act. It's when the joke is most funny that we need to recognize mechanisms of exclusion.
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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (1982) by etjossem on Monday September 14, 2015 @02:45PM (#10216696)
The reference is pretty clearly to "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" (1982), which was itself a satire of exclusionary masculinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Don%27t_Eat_Quiche

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