If you did not ‘get’ the title of this post, you are probably one of them!

I don’t remember how the conversation started, but I found out today that a lot of my friends have not even heard of the legendary Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal and The story of Mel. So I am writing this post in the interest of sparing all the quiche.

From Wikipedia:

Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Inc, Wilsonville OR USA. It has been published as a letter to the editor in Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983. The title is a parody of the bestselling tongue in cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche.

The story of Mel is a response, and a parody of the parody.