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Twenty-two orders of magnitude is a very large number.
When you really look closely at the practice of programming computers, you realize that very little has changed in 50 years.
The rules have not changed.
But one thing has changed: Back then, we didn’t know what the rules were. Consequently, we broke them, over and over again. Now, with half a century of experience behind us, we have a grasp of those rules.