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    Part 9 - (The Future of Real Programmers) - the final part
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    What of future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of
    computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of
    them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days
    can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the
    realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly"
    opearing systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without
    ever learning FORTRAN! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and PASCAL
    programmers?
    From my experience, I can only report that the furure is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. more...

    Part 3 - (Structured Programming)
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    The academics in computer science have gotten into the' structured programming' rut over the past several
    years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language
    constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples
    they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or the
    other - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the
    best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different
    programming languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real
    World. My first assignment in the Real World was to read and understand a 200, 000-line FORTRAN program,
    then speed it up by a factor of two. Any more...

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