Uttered Ed Gurski ed@gurski.com, spake thus:
I am 55 and started work on punch card tabulating machines (IBM 408's), grew up on Autocoder, advanced to assembler, learned Cobol and RPG because I was a consultant in the 70's and 80's, and nver regretted not being a manager.
Yeah! Right on, man! Let's bring back variable wordlength machine_s.
(That underscore is not a typo. It's a word mark.)