The COBOL part made Coke come out of my nose.

The bash part was also brilliant.

Lisp's closure at the end was fantastic!

I'm waiting for the day when someone cracks jokes about Lisp that don't involve parens. Still, 50 years on, I'm really not holding my breath.

It's cute, in a faddish sort of way. Doesn't quite work as a troll, nor as good satire.

I missed Python. :-( Assembly language would've been awesome too.

What is 'Python'? Should I've heard about him/her/it?

Yes, you should have. Go do your reading :-)

huh? http://python.org/

I prefer Pythons: http://pythons.com/

that's even cooler

Haha! I loved the first comment (by innervision).

perl says, '$_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnP,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//;'