The T-shirt bears the words
REAL PROGRAMMERS DONT USE ADA

Ten good reasons not to code in Ada:

  1. It stifles creativiy
  2. It irrevocably damages the brain
  3. The US Dept. of Defence use it
  4. Ed Dykstra doesn't like it
  5. You can't write self-modifying code in it
  6. There's no such thing as a good Ada compiler
  7. It has too many CAPITAL letters
  8. You can't #define in it
  9. It eats disk
 10. I don't like it