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Quiche-eater
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The term quiche-eater, meaning a man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue, is derived from the bestselling tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. The term survives in computer programming circles, where it means a person far removed from practice and concerned only with academic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty". Being humorous in nature, it is usually a fairly mild insult. It was popularised by the 1983 article Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. The article specifically accuses the creator of Pascal, Niklaus Wirth, of being a "quiche eater", and is generally a tongue-in-cheek bashing of the philosophy underlying Pascal (and by extension, other high-level programming languages). |
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