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

Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by stesch on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:43AM (#19511597)
The popularity of this essay in the 1980s poisoned so many minds and is one of the reasons we have to deal with so much bullshit today.
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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by jcelerier on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:20AM (#19511876)
> The popularity of this essay in the 1980s poisoned so many minds and is one of the reasons we have to deal with so much bullshit today.

If the people who read this essay don't get that it's a joke after at most the first sentence, you have bigger problems than that.

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