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• 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 work from 9 to 5, because that is the way the job is described in the formal spec.
  Working late would feel like using an undocumented external procedure....
• Real software engineers like C's structured constructs, but they are suspicious of it because they have heard that it lets you get "close to the machine.
• If it doesn't have recursive function calls, Real Software Engineers don't program in it.
• Real software engineers don't comment their code. The identifiers are so mnemonic they don't have to.
• Real software engineers don't write applications programs, they implement algorithms.
  If someone has an application that the algorithm might help with, that's nice....