Right.
From memory, the preface to _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ says "programming should be fun".
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AVE·MAGISTER·DISINSECTURI·TE·SALUTANTAVE·MAGISTER·DISINSECTURI·TE·SALUTANT
("Hail, Boss, the doomed to debug salute you."
—Ancient Roman software engineers' greeting.
Provincial form attested in Thracia; usage on the Tiber may have varied.)--␠
Abaci lignei, programmatores ferrei.
(Wooden abacuses, iron programmers.)#ArtOfSoftwareEngineering
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@AmenZwa I was thinking about your https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/PL/FortranModernisation/ .Yes...
And it has actually been pointed out a number of times
that Fortran is _still_ superior to many, if not most,
other programming languages for numeric computations.
In a number of ways.