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Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal (a parody of the bestselling 1982 tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche) is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post of Tektronix Inc. and published in July 1983 as a letter to the editor in Datamation.Widely circulated on Usenet in its day and well known in the computer software industry the article compares and contrasts real programmers who use punch cards and write programs in FORTRAN or assembly language with modern-day quiche eaters who use programming languages such as Pascal which support structured programming and impose restrictions meant to prevent or minimize common bugs due to inadvertent programming logic errors.