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There was book in the early 80s called "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", BTW.

As well, TRS-80's from Radio Shack were often called "TRASH-80s" to disparage them.

"As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array."

As someone trying to learn APL this is hilarious and apt!

A proud moment in tech support for me (akin to the telephone and front panel switches story) was walking a non-technical user through using vi to edit a file, over the phone.




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