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by exdsq
1557 days ago
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I'd say the reasons you say it's vintage are the exact reasons I'd say it's timeless! It's a fictional assembly language which is at the level of abstraction he wants and something that won't age because it never existed to begin with. |
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And the fact that it's fictional it doesn't mean it won't age. Because he didn't pull the language out of thin air and he wasn't working in a vacuum, he was inspired by the trend at the time of its invention [2]. I bet if it was written today, it would look quite different, as proof of his language update for the recent editions [3]. So, it's anything but timeless, as said by even the author.
> won't age because it never existed to begin with.
Same as Da Vinci's helicopter? I think that one also aged quite poorly.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX
[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/MIX_(Knuth)
[3] "In my books The Art of Computer Programming, it replaces MIX, the 1960s-style machine that formerly played such a role"