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• Real programmers don't write applications programs, they program right down to the BARE METAL.
  Applications programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming....
• Never write software that patronizes the user.
• Real computer scientists don't write the user interface, they merely argue over what it should look like.
• Real software engineers write in languages that have not actually been implemented for any machine, and for which only the formal spec (in BNF) is available.
  This keeps them from having to take any machine dependencies into account....
• Real software engineers don't write in ADA, because the standards bodies have not quite decided on a formal spec yet.
• Real programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for wimpy applications programmers.
• oolsmith n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die speciali
  one who specializes in making the tools with which other programmers create applications....
• oolsmith: n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die speciali
  one who specializes in making the {tool}s with which other programmers create applications....
• Real computer scientists only write specs for languages that might run on future hardware.
  Nobody trusts them to write specs for anything homo sapiens will ever be able to fit on a single planet....