Real Programmer

n. [indirectly, from the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche] A particular
sub-variety of hacker, having an over-inflated opinion of their own
skills. Also see the Dunning-Kruger effect from psychology. Real
Programmer etiquette requires constantly demanding that
"Real Programmers do X", where X is something like coding directly
in binary or being able to understand ridiculous regexes.

A modern incarnation of the Real Programmer phenomena is the so-called
"brogrammer", who tries to mask a deficit in skills with absurd levels
of machismo and obsessions with personal status or irrelevant
qualifications.

An article called "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post
appeared in a 1982 edition of Datamation. It parodied the style of
the "Real Men" book with an outrageous and highly misogynistic description
of Fortran programmers forgetting their wives names and refusing to
wear high heels.