This phenomenon is both depressing and heartening. If anything, I feel like the general CS community needs more "gotcha" moments (feat. Schmidhuber-like charact

This phenomenon is both depressing and heartening. If anything, I feel like the general CS community needs more "gotcha" moments (feat. Schmidhuber-like characters) that can bring previously-buried prior art to the surface again. That said, maybe it's a matter of wilful ignorance. I wonder e.g. how many folks looking to create new languages have browsed through HOPL...