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Fortran

The sooner we can forget that FORTRAN has ever existed, the better,
for as a vehicle of thought it is no longer adequate:
it wastes our brainpower, is too risky and therefore too expensive to use.
FORTRAN's tragic fate has been its wide acceptance,
mentally chaining thousands and thousands of programmers to our past mistakes.
I pray daily that more of my fellow-programmers may find the means
of freeing themselves from the curse of compatibility.
Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer, 1972

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