"Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" (a parody of the bestselling 1982 tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity Real Men Don't Eat Quiche) is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post of Tektronix, Inc.,Note: Graphic Software Systems was a 1981 spin-off of Tektronix and published in July 1983 as a reader's contribution in Datamation.