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

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.