Obligatory and relevant Hoare quote: “I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, win

Obligatory and relevant Hoare quote: “I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Given how things turned out, he might have better said: "I don't know what the language of the future will be called, but I know it will look like C."