Loper OS

Anyone who has read CS papers from ~1960-1980 and compared the original-idea-density to those of today might think forbidden thoughts.

While meandering through stories of unorthodox computational architectures, I was overcome with a sharp feeling of “where are they now?” Who stole the original thinkers of that era, and planted type-theoretical bureaucrats in their place?

Fortunately, the “golden age” works are still in existence (albeit languishing in obscurity on dusty shelves.) They await the patient software archaeologists.

How does one recognize a Dark Age? When it appears that all you must do to turn a field upside-down is to dig out a few decades-old papers and implement the contents, there might as well be a flashing neon “You Are Here” sign, planted squarely in that ominously shaded section of the time line.

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