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I like how Norvig isn't a Real Programmer. His way of describing the problem before starting to work on it is refreshing.

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> I like how Norvig isn't a Real Programmer

I'm not sure what you mean by "Real Programmer". if one write programs for a living one is a programmer. Reminds me that french joke about the "real hunter" and the "fake hunter".

I think they mean it in the "real programmers use FORTRAN" [1], not the literal, sense.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/Real-Programmer.html

What's the joke?

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