Every couple of years I stumble over couple of classic stories about real programmers of the old and those still always make me laugh.

Here are the links in case anyone hasn’t read them yet:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

Besides being funny lots of these things are true too. For example I have had to maintain code that was living proof that you can really write Java in almost any language (Python in my case).