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Crinus on March 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

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 :-).

mcguire on March 28, 2019 [–]

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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