Of all the reasons to say “no” to a job at Crapita (see Eyes passim), having to pick up a custom language sounds like the least of them. Though considering pay

Of all the reasons to say “no” to a job at Crapita (see Eyes passim), having to pick up a custom language sounds like the least of them. Though considering payroll’s one of the oldest and most solved problems in software development (Hi, LEO!) I do wonder what benefits a custom language could over current over off-the-shelf tools. Could be a legacy thing, in league with those old COBOL mainframe systems you hear about, lurking in shadows, waiting to teach all you kids nowadays a thing or two about walking fifteen miles in snow, uphill both ways… [cont p.94]