PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set
than to the solution set.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should,
therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
[From EWD483, "Exercises in Making Programes Robust"] Warning: The
proofreading of the proram text has not been done with the same
care I spent on the pages of my book.