XML does Real Programmers a Service
Abstract
As the sun slowly sets of this first decade of the new millenium, it seems appropriate to update the sojourn of the real programmers as they adapt to their ever changing technical and business environment. Real Programmers were perfectly characterized and differentiated from their quiche-eating, Pascal programming brethren in Ed Post’s seminal “Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal” (Datamation, 1983). My follow-up ("Real programmers do use Delphi," Software, IEEE , vol.12, no.6, pp.8, 10, 12-, Nov 1995) charted their evolution from FORTRAN-only programmers to embracing a wider range of mainstream languages and tools that still afforded ample opportunity for creativity, game-playing, irregular work hours, and importantly, long-term job security.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 947033
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-61837
TRN: US200904%%314
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Computer, 41(9):100, 98-99
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 41; Journal Issue: 9
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; distributed computing; software engineering
Citation Formats
Gorton, Ian. XML does Real Programmers a Service. United States: N. p., 2008.
Web. doi:10.1109/MC.2008.404.
Gorton, Ian. XML does Real Programmers a Service. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2008.404
Gorton, Ian. 2008.
"XML does Real Programmers a Service". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2008.404.
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abstractNote = {As the sun slowly sets of this first decade of the new millenium, it seems appropriate to update the sojourn of the real programmers as they adapt to their ever changing technical and business environment. Real Programmers were perfectly characterized and differentiated from their quiche-eating, Pascal programming brethren in Ed Post’s seminal “Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal” (Datamation, 1983). My follow-up ("Real programmers do use Delphi," Software, IEEE , vol.12, no.6, pp.8, 10, 12-, Nov 1995) charted their evolution from FORTRAN-only programmers to embracing a wider range of mainstream languages and tools that still afforded ample opportunity for creativity, game-playing, irregular work hours, and importantly, long-term job security.},
doi = {10.1109/MC.2008.404},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/947033},
journal = {Computer, 41(9):100, 98-99},
number = 9,
volume = 41,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008},
month = {Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008}
}