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FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

Ken Thompson
Race, Choices, Three
1983 Turing Award Lecture, "Communications of the ACM" 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.