Software costs trend ever-upward. We have to be make sure that software products earn their keep, that the parallel is worth the perpendicular. To younger IT types, it probably has the same resonance as, say, Ozzie Nelson. A programming language primarily used to express computer programs by arithmetic formulas. A programming language primarily designed for applications involving numeric computations.
Civilizations rise on their devices.
Things smartly designed, smartly used, and as mortal as flesh. From the astrolabe to the Bernoulli Box. Herr Wolff fled to Russia after the Wall fell, but soon returned, and was a momentary media sensation before retiring to a drab house at the end of a drab street. Cryptic as ever, he said the foremost lesson he learned during his career was that wives know a lot more about their husbands than the husbands think they know. Spooky bits of insight aren't limited to spouses and spies.