BPDW.COM » epic http://www.bpdw.com/mentary If you can't say anything nice... welcome home. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:43:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. http://www.bpdw.com/mentary/2008/05/not-fortran-not-ratfor-not-even-assembly-language/ http://www.bpdw.com/mentary/2008/05/not-fortran-not-ratfor-not-even-assembly-language/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 05:02:27 +0000 Britain http://www.bpdw.com/mentary/2008/05/not-fortran-not-ratfor-not-even-assembly-language/

I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I’ll call him Mel..

Ed Nather, The Story of Mel

Made better if you imagine it being told by Sam Shepard as the cowboy narrator in “The Big Lebowski.”

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