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Real software engineers like writing their own compilers, preferably in PROLOG (they also like writing them in unimplemented languages, but it turns out to be difficult to actually RUN these).
Real software engineers play tennis. In general, they don't like any sport that involves getting hot and sweaty and gross when out of range of a shower.
(Thus mountain climbing is Right Out.) They wi...
Real software engineers regret the existence of COBOL, FORTRAN, and BASIC.
PL/1 is getting there, but it is not nearly disciplined enough...
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 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 ma...
Real Soon Now: [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in "BYTE"] adv.
1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according ...
REAL Sponge cake: all the ingredients are borrowed.
Real starship captains don't need hair.
Real Sysops are always on the brink of divorce.
REAL Sysops disconnect the Speakers !!

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