I think it was just something the guy did for fun. It wasn't meant to be a super-optimised piece of code. Also man hours are now a lot more valuable than CPU t

I think it was just something the guy did for fun. It wasn't meant to be a super-optimised piece of code. Also man hours are now a lot more valuable than CPU time. This is why people use things like python instead of coding in assembler, as would have been done for the original.