[numb7rs]

I've heard it said that one of the reasons Fortran has a reputation for bad code is this combination: lots of people who haven't had any education in best practices; and it's really easy in Fortran to write bad code.

[hinkley]

Which is why that “you can write Fortran in any language” is such an epithet.

[tracker1]

Most horrific code I've ever seen was a VB6 project written by a mainframe programmer... I didn't even know VB6 could do some of the things he did... and wish I never did. Not to mention variables like a, b, c, d .. aa, ab...

[MajimasEyepatch]

Code written by scientists is a sight to behold.

[craigmoliver]

and they think cause they're scientists they can just do it because they're scientists and stuff. Very pragmatic to be sure...but horrifying.