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“In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time.” 🥲
Ed Post, "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal",
DATAMATION, July 1983, https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html