The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any langu — Fortran

"People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings — they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for example."

"FORTRAN—the "infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."

"As I said in my comments to the committee, [Fortran 90 would be a] nice language, too bad its not Fortran."

"Recall the first American space probe to Venus, reportedly lost because Fortran cannot recognize a missing comma in a DO statement…"

"FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular."

"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."