why should it blow my mind? its an accomplishment .. sure. but there are and have been far more complex systems written in assembler and/or much mor complex/co

why should it blow my mind? its an accomplishment .. sure. but there are and have been far more complex systems written in assembler and/or much mor complex/confusing (from todays perspective of a run-of-the-mill ror/ios/webtech-du-jour programmer) technologies because thats all there was or thats what had to be used to accomplish the task at hand.