Duly Noted

The democratization vision, however, did partially come true. COBOL became the most widely used language in the world, but not for use by the general masses. Businessmen still needed trained programmers. Reading and writing code proved to be very different skills. As Turing Award winner Fred Brooks phrases it, simpler programming languages reduce the accidental complexity of a task, but the essential complexity remains.

_{Quote Citation: Ben Eagan, “The Abstraction Rises - The Cyber Omelette”, February 6, 2026, https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html}