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Real Programmer
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n. [indirectly, from the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche] A particular
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sub-variety of hacker, having an over-inflated opinion of their own
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skills. Also see the Dunning-Kruger effect from psychology. Real
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Programmer etiquette requires constantly demanding that
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"Real Programmers do X", where X is something like coding directly
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in binary or being able to understand ridiculous regexes.
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2014-04-26 16:54:15 +01:00
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2018-12-24 12:55:36 +00:00
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A modern incarnation of the Real Programmer phenomena is the so-called
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"brogrammer", who tries to mask a deficit in skills with absurd levels
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of machismo and obsessions with personal status or irrelevant
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qualifications.
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An article called "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post
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appeared in a 1982 edition of Datamation. It parodied the style of
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the "Real Men" book with an outrageous and highly misogynistic description
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of Fortran programmers forgetting their wives names and refusing to
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wear high heels.
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