I spent my whole career working hard to stay at the bottom of the corporate ladder.

As a Charles Bukowski character once said when an interviewer asked about the gaps in his resume, "Anybody can work all the time!"

"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane."

Check out the GNU Fortran compiler: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Fortran gcc.gnu.org/fortran/

Ditto

I've worked hard to stay at the bottom of the corporate ladder.

I learned WordStar in the early 80's, and I have continued to use editors with WordStar key mappings ever since. My fingers know where to go. I once counted up that using Ctrl keys, I can do 14 operations that are one key or two (with the Ctrl key held down, of course). Currently I use an editor called joe which comes with a version jstar which uses WordStar key mapping. It is a great editor that runs on Linux. I don't know if it runs on Windows.

But don't forget what Edsger Dijstra once said: If you say the same thing twice, you will contradict yourself.

This reminds me of Flon's Axiom from 45 years ago: "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs."

My boss and I once inherited a very poorly designed chunk of software which
cried out for a complete rewrite. But that was never going to happen, so we
often had to write code which we would otherwise never have written. My
boss always prefaced such code with a comment:

// May God forgive me for what I am about to write.

I find the Firefox extension Print Friendly[^] to be indispensible.

How about 1943? When I learned to program, we had to twist the bits with our bare hands.

Don't Be in a Hurry.

To quote Alan Perlis: If you create a function with 10 arguments, you probably missed one.

The Delete key.