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Classic Datamation article by Ed Post.
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Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal  A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983. I've long ago lost my dog-eared photocopy, but I believe this was written (and is copyright) by Ed Post, Tektronix, Wilsonville OR USA. The story of Mel...
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

Designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers - large collection of GNU/programming humor.
http://www.gnu.org/fun/humor.html

Open-source related humor, dissing (among others) Linus Torvalds, RMS, ESR, vi, and Perl.
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Softpanorama Open Source Humor Collection  May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle Softpanorama slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society Softpanorama Open Source Humor Archive A Letter from Anonymous Coward Academic Programmers: A Spotters Guide Americanized Russian Programmer Assembly Language Opcodes...
http://www.softpanorama.org/Bulletin/Humor/index.shtml

Jokes, oneliners, and prank definitions.
http://www.heuse.com/cphumor.htm

Humorous observations and stories of dealing with computers and their users.
http://tellingjokes.com/j/lop.htm

Collection of stupid chunks of C source code and reports of encounters with less-than-bright apprentice programmers.
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml

Collecting examples of "Hello World" programs for as many languages and related programming environments (shells) as possible.
http://www.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml

Why is C++ programming like teenage sex? What's the difference between a software developer and a drug dealer? When will operator overloading be added to Java? This page has the answers.
http://www.klawitter.de/enhumor.html

An ACM classic: UNIX coinventor Ken Thompson reports on how he hacked his own C compiler.
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

Mildly sexist metaphorical languages lineup.
http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/prog.lang.html

Programming style and how it evolves as programmers mature from junior high students to senior managers.
http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.html

List of 120 programming-related aphorisms.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

Collection of jokes, satirical articles, and parodies on popular song lyrics.
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/humor/progwack.htm

A song kind of by Paul Simon.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~norm/hose_code.html

Showcases how to shoot yourself in the foot using several programming languages.
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/foot.htm

A structured biography in 483 pseudo-coded subroutines, as logical outcome of random events and processes during lifetime.
http://www.alphaandomega.nl/

Quotations about programmers, software and programming languages.
http://www.sysprog.net/quotpgmr.html

Funny programming code. Programmers can submit their own code and rate the work of others.
http://www.comedycode.com

Quotations from various programmers about programming. Includes a quotes search, newsletter, and index of quotes by person quoted.
http://www.softwarequotes.com/

Programmer slang dictionary, containing more than 2000 not-quite-serious definitions and a number of programmer folklore anecdotes. Hosted by Eric S. Raymond.
http://catb.org/jargon/

Eric S. Raymond's list of outdated, obscure, or deliberatly unusable programming languages, compilers, and interpreters.
http://catb.org/~esr/retro/

Collection of programming humor and computer folklore classics.
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/

Koan-style advice to apprentice programmers.
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

A program for generating comments automatically, customizable by FUD factor, profanity, self-importance, verbosity, humor level, and bitterness.
http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/