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Never said it would. I did imply that things haven't significantly improved.

Throw away goto and globals, replace them with anonymous functions and closures, and the new thing looks an awful damn lot like the old thing.

All I know is that we used to have retrained housewives writing physics programs. Now we expect 10,000 hours to write a halfway decent web form, and halfway decent doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.



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