If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.