I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.