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This is the guy behind spacechem and TIS-100

I envy Zach so much, he seems to have succeeded in making his entire life about turing machines and different execution models, all while making cool games to boot.

I think it's the dream of many (including myself) to put some basic programming mechanism into everything; There's a bit of magic about having a typewriter print out your output so you can debug it here and there

I do kind of wonder how well this old-school programming style meshes with a higher-level language like Haskell. I can only imagine it being even better. A terse language with huge columns to write your ocmments/debugging. I've seen it done with APL, maybe we need J in there too.



He also designed the game Minecraft had heavily "borrowed" from.




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