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The readers forum tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions and contributions from the publication's readers, including nostalgic and technical content. One featured thread revisits a classic 1983 Datamation Readers' Forum piece titled "Real Programmers don't use Pascal," which humorously contrasts older programming languages like Fortran and assembly with modern ones. This tag highlights community-shared historical perspectives on programming, computing culture, and the evolution of software development, often reflecting on the early days of computing and the skills of programmers from that era.
  1. bochane

    Real Programmers don't use Pascal

    Looking through old papers I found a copy I made of an amusing contribution to Datamation July 1983 Readers' Forum: Real Programmers don't use Pascal Who knows nowadays of Fortran, Pascal or ADA? Who were able to dig into the machine code to gain some precious microseconds? We were, a long...
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