61.   Industry executives have suggested that Apple was at risk of losing its innovative edge because software developers are beginning to write programs for the Intel-Microsoft world first.

62.   Inside most employees spend their days hunched over computers in five-feet-high cubicles writing programs.

63.   It means reverse engineering the electronics of an actual machine and writing a program that allows a normal home computer to act like it.

64.   It took Williams a few months to teach himself the Perl programming language and write a program for creating concordances.

65.   It was surprising given that the program was written by William Middleton, the former Paris bureau chief for W magazine.

66.   Java enables companies to write small programs that can travel over the Internet or across private networks, called intranets, to handle all kinds of computing chores.

67.   Java lets developers write programs that can be run on computers regardless of their operating systems.

68.   Jobs also boasted that since the release of the iMac, software companies are once again eager to write programs for the Mac.

69.   Java can be used to write programs for a variety of devices and operating systems, doing away with the need to rewrite programs for each device.

70.   Java ends such nonsense, freeing programmers to concentrate on writing useful programs.