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

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

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