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> The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler. The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.

Heh, nothing changed.

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You left out the most important line in the whole treatise :)

> But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.

Cobol does not look that bad given the mess we are in today.

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