That line was included in more than one post. There are also multiple posts from that time period which said exactly the opposite. It was an ongoing joke, raised to somewhat of an art form.

https://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/RPDEQ.html

https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20080419225755/http://www.suslik...

Old magazines, BBSes, Usenet, and mailing lists are full of this sort of humor.

https://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/project.html