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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. htt
by jgrahamc 7y ago
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U
Here's the code: https://gist.github.com/jgrahamc/9a90399f39926857b19e8635b30a3ebd https://gist.github.com/jgrahamc/9a90399f39926857b19e8635b30...
- TedDoesntTalk 7y agoamazing work!
- e12e 7y agoAnd the magazine article (mentioned in the Twitter thread - "Dr digital" page 98 - 73 magazine 1984): https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/mod... The online version is pretty much unreadable for me on Firefox/mobile, but the Pdf is ok: https://archive.org/download/73-magazine-1984-05/05_May_1984.pdf https://archive.org/download/73-magazine-1984-05/05_May_1984... 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..
- yanowitz 7y agoCame 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.
- BrowserMeeting 7y agoSo fricking cool. I’m surprised that after all these years, no one told him before this.