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by nickpsecurity 3566 days ago
Yeah, that's a good one. I wonder if something like HLA would've helped them back then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly

Maybe it with s-expressions and Wirth-style compilation. Might have made those iterations pretty fast with lots of efficiency. The HLL's too heavy to compile could be mapped to it by hand if they wanted.