When FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder...

[paserbyp]

...full PL/1, with its growth characteristics of a dangerous tumor, could turn out to be a fatal disease.

Edsger W. Dijkstra, ACM Turing Lecture 1972, "The Humble Programmer" - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

For references: http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Catching-Minnows-in-a-Jar-with-PL-I.html&Itemid=29