Everything old really is new again.<p>This reminds me of a paper by Gary Kildall published in 1970 called "APL\B5500: The Language And Its Implementation" [1], which I think will fascinate many by just how modern it reads. Just about all of the terminology and concepts were refined by then and remain identical to the present day, when the conventional understanding of the software industry -- where everything allegedly becomes obsoleted every 6 months, would dictate that it must be hopelessly anachronistic by now.<p>We're not as innovative as we think we are.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cs.washington.edu/tr/1970/09/UW-CSE-70-09-04.PDF" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.washington.edu/tr/1970/09/UW-CSE-70-09-04.PDF</a>