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by Someone 4727 days ago
Nitpick: it can't be from "before BASIC" if it mentions Pascal. BASIC is older than Pascal (1964 vs 1970, according to Wikipedia)

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don't_Use_Pasc... (with links to the essay; look at the email address. That alone shows that we are talking of a real programmer) says it's from 1983.