Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Consider the work of a future software archeologist, tracing the history of
computing. The fossil record will likely show clear strata: here is a layer
formed of assembly language artifacts, there is a layer populated with the
skeletons of high order programming languages (with certain calcified legacy
parts probably still showing some signs of life). Each such layer will be
intersected with the imprint of other factors that have shaped the software
landscape: components, residue from the great operating system and