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Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.

I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I’ll call him Mel..

Ed Nather, The Story of Mel

Made better if you imagine it being told by Sam Shepard as the cowboy narrator in “The Big Lebowski.”