In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

Source: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html

Topics: programming, debugging