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Writing code is a terrible way for humans to command computers. Lucky for us, new technology is about to 27 programming languages as useful as Latin. Boston, New York, New Zealand and a whole lot of other places are going crazy for coding courses 28 by Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. It's 29 in tech circles to say so and might get me disinvited to parties with the cast of Silicon Valley, but learning a programming language could turn out to be 30 for most kids. We're approaching an interesting 31 : Computers are about to get more brainlike and will understand us on our terms, not theirs. The very nature of programming will shift toward something closer to 32 a new hire how to do his or her job. Using a made-up language to talk to computers goes back to the 1950s, when IBM scientist John Backus created FORTRAN (公式翻译). Since computers then had less processing power than an earthworm, it was much easier for humans to learn ways to give orders to computers than it was to get computers to 33 humans. Over the next six decades, programming languages got 34 sophisticated. But computers are still like Parisian waiters who refuse to listen if you don't speak French: They take direction only in their own language. Finally, it looks as if that will change. A couple of developments 35 how. One comes out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military's science lab. Later this year, DARPA is going to 36 a program called MUSE (Mining and Understanding Software Enclaves). 'What we're trying to do is a paradigm shift in the way we think about software,' DARPA's Suresh Jagannathan tells Newsweek. A. backed I. launch B. boosted J. offensive C. comprehend K. prior D. fruitless L. prosperity E. illustrate M. render F. increasingly N. sponsored G. instantly O. transition H. instructing