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Hmm#

Fri Mar 29 22:46:50 2002

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Hmm. Bits of it work, too. We can create a new process, switch to it, run something, and switch back. Debugging it is a bind, though: the debugger depends for corect operation on many of the bits we're tampering with.

After a comment on IRC, I found Edsger Dijkstra's How do we tell truths that might hurt.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.