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- FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis
- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half… — Philip Greenspun
- I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare
- Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days. — Marvin Minsky
- In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they… — Edsger Dijkstra
- FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today:… — Edsger Dijkstra
- Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck
- You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis
- Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson