"Coded in assembly language 59 years ago, the IMF seems small, at 200,000 lines of code. But the nature of assembler is that each line does a lot. Somehow replicating the logic in a more contemporary language has resisted efforts dating back a couple of decades."
Considering that average IQ has been dropping for decades in developed countries, one has to begin wondering if we are even capable of building code or infrastructure as well as they did 50-70 years ago