FORTRAN, an “infantile disorder”?

A few notes on what the computing scientist Edsger Dijkstra said and didn’t say about Fortran, and the origin of that term “infantile disorder”. Edsger Dijkstra Edsger Dijkstra was a Dutch computing scientist who helped shape the field in the 1960s-1980s and made important contributions to networking, concurrency and structured programming. He is probably best known for his strong objection to…