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- noun idiomatic A man who is
effeminate or who lacks someputative masculine virtue - noun computing, idiomatic, humorous In
computer programming circles, a person far removed frompractice and concerned only withacademic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty ".
Etymologies
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The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. The computer circle version was popularised by an 1983 article Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, that specifically accuses the creator of Pascal language, Niklaus Wirth, of being a "quiche eater" due to the nature of Pascal.
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