Could be understood as "take these words, and write them out in alphabetical order". It's not specifically stated whether letters inside those words should also be sorted or not.
We take it for granted that we have so much experience communicating, we can infer the meaning without full instruction, but children are still acquiring this knowledge and sometimes take things literally with hilarious results.
to be fair, I think such old codebase in that ancient of a language is going to have a lot of technical debt and predate maintainable code practices. I'd rather work with a modern language. Whatherver LLM spat out - having been trained on modern code - is going to be a lot more maintainable.
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