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• BCPL: Beats Cobol Programming Language
• TechnoBabble, the language of choice!
• COBOL: Completely Obsolete Boring Old Language
• Basic: Language of choice by non-programmers.
• COBOL programmers are destined to code COBOL for the rest of their lives, and thereafter.
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• To live and die in scenes like this, With some we 've left behind us.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- As slow our Ship...
• Quote #412 C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. -- Bertrand Meye
• The train jolted to a halt, a woman asked what was the matter.
  "We`ve hit a cow, madam." "Was it on the tracks ?" "NO, we had to chase it over a field....