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Expanded from 180 lines to 450+ lines per language: - Real failure stories: EU bank COBOL→Java (€200M), Brazil Clipper→Python (tax error) - Deep Go analysis: 25 keywords vs 90+, no exceptions by design, hardware future - AI paradox: code generation vs code understanding gap - Detailed code comparisons: Go vs Five for discount calculation - Five principles with battle scars from 30 years of xBase deployment - Independence manifesto: zero-dependency code ownership - Epilogue: what will future archaeologists find? "The measure of a language is not what it can express, but what it allows a stranger to understand." Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Description
Five — Harbour+Go Fusion Language (PRG→Go native binary)
Languages
Go
57.9%
xBase
22%
C
19.5%
Shell
0.5%
Makefile
0.1%