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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:51:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:22:08 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

> This came from a famous item in “Datamation” magazine,
> entitled “Real Programmers Don’t Eat Quiche”.

Sorry, not quite. The article was entitled “Real Programmers Don’t Use 
Pascal”, and it was a sendup of a book that was doing the rounds at the 
time, called “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche”.

Obviously because Pascal was considered the programming-language 
equivalent of quiche.