Happy ending to my YouTube video on where all the code came from in The Terminator. I tracked down the author of one piece and emailed him out of the blue.
Ed: corrected link. The article itself would be a great hn submission - a comparison of time (writing+execution) of a simple program in basic, Pascal and cobol..
Came to say the same thing. Fascinating look into a time machine—what problems are we still wrestling with and what celebrated innovations then do we see as problematic legacies now (e.g., when a language allows 1 + ‘1’ to equal 2)? Very fun read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U
Here's the code: https://gist.github.com/jgrahamc/9a90399f39926857b19e8635b30...