HA, "methods". This was the late 50's, kiddo. OO was fifteen years off... hell, high level languages were not even there yet. You were lucky if your computer had a keyboard. Your precious "unit tests" would have also been written in hex, and "Melanie's" carefully factored code would spend most of its time thrashing the stack, if the LGP-30 had one. And it didn't.

Anyway, to understand the context of this article, you need to read the "parent post" called "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal": http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/real.programmers.html

And to understand that, check on the grandparent, not a post but a book: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Dont_Eat_Quiche).