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

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

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

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

When in doubt, use brute force.