OT: reference book(s)

[Kenneth Brody]

Bill Vermillion wrote:
[...]
> [I miss those old days of "my language is better than your
> language" and all the stories that went with them.
> 
> Their mottos was "real programmers do it in Fortran. If you can't
> do it in Fortran, do it in assembly.  If you can't do it in
> assembly, it isn't worth doing".
[...]

For the epitome of "real programmers" stories, read "The Story of Mel":

    http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheStoryofMel.html

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