Classic HN: The Story of Mel (1983,1992,1999,2001,2002) This was posted to Usenet by its author, Ed Nather (), on May 21, 1983. A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement: Real Programmers write in FORTRAN. Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand […]


