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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by Crinus on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:42PM (#19513916)
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 :-).

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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by mcguire on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:53PM (#19515315)
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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