"When FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder, full PL/1, with its growth characteristics of a dangerous tumor, could turn out to be a fatal disease."

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Edsger W. Dijkstra, "The Humble Programmer", 1972 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 15 (10), October 1972: pp. 859–866