Once upon a time I was the SW lead on a Fortran project, we got a guy assigned onto the project who was a fan of C. One day he says (with full seriousness) “we should do this in C, It’s great because you can have the compiler output assembly, then you can mod the assembly code, and create a binary that doesn’t match your source code.
My reaction was 😱, but I just said we’re doing it in Fortran because that’s what the customer specified.