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<H2>Generated</H2>
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<H2>Glossary</H2>
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<H4>Real Programmer</H4>
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n. [indirectly, from the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche ] A particular sub-variety of hacker: one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal Real Programmer likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been tuned into a state of tense ness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: If it was hard to write , says the Real Programmer, it should be hard to understand. Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a Good Thing that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see The Story of Mel' in Appendix A. The term itself was popularized by a letter to the editor in the July 1983 Datamation titled Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line form. Typing Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal into a web search engine should turn up a copy.
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.
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<H4>Real Soon Now</H4>
<p>1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical. </p>

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Omnivorous. Hackers often have a reading range that astonishes liberal arts people but tend not to talk about it as much. Many hackers spend as much of their spare time reading as the average prole burns up watching TV/movies, and often have an extensive epub/pdf collection on a storage device or server somewhere.
*** Real Programmer
n. [indirectly, from the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche ] A particular sub-variety of hacker: one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal Real Programmer likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at same, remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that HLLs are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been tuned into a state of tense ness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: If it was hard to write , says the Real Programmer, it should be hard to understand. Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a Good Thing that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see The Story of Mel' in Appendix A. The term itself was popularized by a letter to the editor in the July 1983 Datamation titled Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line form. Typing Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal into a web search engine should turn up a copy.
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.
*** Real Soon Now
1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical.