Alrighty, good evening. A couple more questions from Facebook. Since gene therapy by man is

definitionally witchcraft, is it possible for a geneticist to be pious if he believes it's only by

God's will that his work can succeed? Well, let me tell you something. So when I got my very first professional programming

job making the princely sum of $40,000 a year, which was all the money of the world

back then, at least for me, what I did was I worked on a tandem terminal, a terminal to a tandem computer, and I worked on

Cobol 74. Cobol 74 had no end-if statements, just dots and so on. And at one point,

we shifted from Cobol 74, greater to Cobol 85, which had end if statements.

And I wrote a program to run through code and switch the dots that terminated the if statements

to end if statements, sometimes even to else statements. And it was very cool. And the code ran

perfectly except for one strange thing where there was a hidden carriage return or something like that. And the code ran perfectly except for one strange thing where there was a hidden carriage

return or something like that. And my code upgraded and made much more readable and

maintainable millions of lines of code from COBOL 70, for to COBEL 85, except for that one.

And that one was hard to find. And if you've ever worked

managing or upgrading or changing or altering source code, I remember I was given a program to

upgrade, and that didn't just mean translate it from Covell 74 to Cobra 85, but make some

substantial changes to the code. And it was about 100,000 lines of code. It was an incredibly

complicated program that processed haircuts in trading algorithms.

And, boy, I really found that one very hard to work on.

It was all on a terminal, so there were no breakpoints.

You couldn't F8 step through the code like you can in Windows.

You couldn't immediately interrogate all the variables to find out their values.

It was really tough to work on.

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