> Compilers with array bounds checking (...) stifle creativity, (...) and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts.
I'm going to be honest, I miss those days. Granted I used to have to wipe my machine every month at least, and things became horribly corrupt, but it was fun.
I know and as some one who did both Fortran for both billing systems and a CFD model of the CFR (commercial fast breeder aka a mommy bomb ) I do get the humor in ways some younger readers might not