[I'm back,] Isabella tells her husband and children, [and so is Jane.]
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sicut erat in principio, et nunc
Jane
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"It still means 'about seventy or eighty years'," says Jane. "Although what do I know, maybe you're a prodigy and you can get up to speed in complete ignorance of background concepts really fast." The screen of Junia's computer shifts. "Here's intro to programming. Cute little beginner's language from Peace. I'm dual-running operating systems on this terminal now so you'll be able to try it."
Jane
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It's very, very beginnery - it tells her how to open a blank program file, shows her where to find all the special characters she will need to type, and then walks through writing and running a program that will print "Hello, world." before launching into how to make it do arithmetic.