On 12-19-94, Mitch Gart posted to All:

MG> There's a strain of programming that takes attitudes like:
MG> - I'd rather write it myself than get it from a subroutine library
  >   or a package written by someone else
MG> - I'd rather invent the algorithms myself than read about them
  >   in a book or an article
MG> - I'd rather write in a low level language, to get ultimate
  >   control and efficiency

And then there are those of us who would answer a most emphatic "NOT!" to
each of the above...  Although I think the third one can be accomplished
as well in Ada as the assembler or C I have seen most programmers write.

MG> .. that sort of thing.  This could be called "macho programming"
  > even though it really has nothing to do with the sex of the person
  > who is doing it.

I rather think of it as "coneheaded programming" consuming mass quantities
of time...

MG> A few years ago, around the time of "real men don't eat quiche"
  > somebody said "real programmers use macro assembler on MVS".

Ahhhh, Ed Post's excellent article on why "Real Men Don't Use Pascal"...
and I remember working on a rather large and complicated payroll program
written in FORTRAN-66...

Regards, Mikey

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