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the Pascal Programmer and the C Programmer
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By Shooting Shark - Tiburon Systems. 6/24/86
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Summary : Never mind...
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Favorite Shirt
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Pascal programmer: Izod Pin-Striped button down. $34 at Brook's.
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C programmer: Hanes T-shirt with message: "Life is like break-dancing. I
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can't do it."
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Favorite TV Program
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Pascal programmer: Toss-Up between "Family Ties" and "Murder She Wrote."
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C programmer: Toss-Up between "WWF Hour" and "David Letterman."
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Most Exciting Thing That Happened To Him Last Summer
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C programmer: Got laid by a gorgeous blonde 4 hours after he met her on
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the beach.
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Pascal programmer: Found a clock card at a swap for only $8.
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Best Programming Achievement
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Pascal Programmer: Wrote relational database for VAX under VMS.
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C programmer: Super Star Wars simulation game, once he gets it finished.
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Pascal Programmer: makes $28,000 annually after taxes.
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C programmer: Could make up to $35,000 if he came into work more often.
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Time He Does His Best Work
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Pascal programmer: early in the morning, like 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
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C programmer: early in the morning, like 3 a.m. to 5 a.m.
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Favorite Editor
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C programmer: vi.
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Pascal programmer: TECO.
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What he'd like to write
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Pascal programmer: An electrical system management program for large
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factories.
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C programmer: an automatic password hacker that dials his home phone number
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and leaves a message on his answering machine whenever it hacks a
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password.
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Pascal programmer: Currently grad student at Stanford.
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C programmer: Went to Heald for a while. Read the K&R 'C' text.
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Pascal programmer: shaves with a Remington Micro-Screen that his father
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gave him.
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C programmer: Uses a new Bic throw-away every three days.
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Pascal programmer: Has a Labrador Retriever named Rex.
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C programmer: Has three cats and a goldfish.
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Pascal programmer: Drives a Honda Accord.
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C programmer: Would drive his VW if he could afford to get the transmission
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fixed. Now he rides his ten-speed.
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Pascal programmer: appalled by movies in which insane drifters murder
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college coeds.
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C programmer: seeks them out.
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What He Does on Sunday Morning
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Pascal programmer: drives down to the 7-11 and picks up a newspaper.
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C programmer: Walks down to the 7-11 and buys a "Big Gulp."
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Pascal programmer: works as a software engineer for a silicon valley
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firm.
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C programmer: Puts together and sells IBM PC clones.
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Pascal programmer: owns a Compupro S-100 system with 256k RAM and 35
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megabyte hard drive and a 1200 baud modem.
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C programmer: owns two Timex-Sinclairs, an Atari 600xl, a Commodore
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64, An Apple //e (with a 2400 baud modem) and a Commodore Amiga. Has an
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Imsai sitting in the garage.
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Job Security
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Pascal programmer: Has been told he'll make Vice-President since his
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Accounting Package is selling so well.
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C programmer: Has patched 3 logic bombs into the company VAXes operating
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system. His way of saying, "just wait until they fire ME!"
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Pascal programmer: Went to the University last week to hear Niklaus Wirth
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speak on "Hashing as a database table lookup method."
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C programmer: Has a season ticket to the University's Women's Basketball
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games.
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Pascal programmer: Gets up at 6:30, eats a bowl of Grape Nuts, walks his dog,
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then drives to work.
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C programmer: Wakes up at the crack of noon. Except when his cat jumps
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on his chest at the ungodly hour of 10 a.m.
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What He Does on a Saturday Morning
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Pascal programmer: Changes the ribbon on his lq printer, then takes the
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kids to the park.
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C programmer: Takes apart his joystick, then cruises down to the beach.
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That's it... (for volume one, at least.)
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