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| #1781 |  | FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers. -- Steven Feiner
 
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| #1782 |  | FORTRAN rots the brain. -- John McQuillin
 
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| #1783 |  | FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is
 too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
 -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
 
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| #1784 |  | [FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade. -- T. Cheatham
 
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| #1785 |  | Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands! 
 Try:
 [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?			(C shell)
 ^How did the^sex change operation go?	(C shell)
 "How would you rate BSD vs. System V?
 %blow					(C shell)
 'thou shalt not mow thy grass at 8am'	(C shell)
 got a light?				(C shell)
 !!:Say, what do you think of margarine?	(C shell)
 PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense	(Bourne shell)
 make love
 make "the perfect dry martini"
 man -kisses dog				(anything up to 4.3BSD)
 i=Hoffa ; >$i; $i; rm $i; rm $i		(Bourne shell)
 
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| #1786 |  | Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands! 
 Try:
 ar t "God"
 drink < bottle; opener			(Bourne Shell)
 cat "food in tin cans"			(all but 4.[23]BSD)
 Hey UNIX!  Got a match?			(V6 or C shell)
 mkdir matter; cat > matter		(Bourne Shell)
 rm God
 man: Why did you get a divorce?		(C shell)
 date me					(anything up to 4.3BSD)
 make "heads or tails of all this"
 who is smart
 (C shell)
 If I had a ) for every dollar of the national debt, what would I have?
 sleep with me				(anything up to 4.3BSD)
 
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| #1787 |  | fortune: cannot execute.  Out of cookies. 
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| #1788 |  | fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped. 
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| #1789 |  | fortune: No such file or directory 
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| #1790 |  | fortune: not found 
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