Real Programmers Rocks! System Programming Rulez!!

(Manghihingi muna ako ng paumanhin sa hindi nakakarelate. Sensya na. This is just to good.)

From: How Not to Program in C++: 111 Broken Programs and 3 Working Ones, or Why Does 2+2=5986 by Steve Oualline

Real Programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Real Programmers don’t draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate’s form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them.

Real Programmers don’t play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is okay, and Real Programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room.

Real Programmers don’t write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.

Real Programmers don’t write specs — users should consider themselves lucky to get any programs at all and take what they get.

Real Programmers don’t eat quiche. In fact, Real Programmers don’t know how to SPELL quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.

(And I’ll shout this to the world!!!!)

Real Programmers don’t write application programs; they program right down on the bare metal. Application programming is for feebs who can’t do systems programming.