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How is this different from an ordinary breadth-first search (with pruning)?

This is supposed to run on computers with hardware support of destroying a universe.

Makes one wonder if it would translate nicely into ~ATH. At the very least, ~ATH's concurrency and async support would be a bit better.

Immediate edit: So on a lark I looked up "tilde ath" and found someone actually implemented some of it [0]. It's more focused on bifurcation than threading, and I think it might be improved by something like OP's `quantum`. At least we could simulate the plot a bit.

[0] https://github.com/drocta/TILDE-ATH#_=_

I'm sad this doesn't support the canon of having syntactically-functional text colors (and multiple parallel colored "documents").

I'm actually surprised this doesn't come up more often. Considering how popular syntax highlighting is, it would be neat to be able to color stuff based on context. I guess it would be some sort of bizarre unicode monster that encoded the glyph as well as color?

Regardless, I was sad about that as well. You just can't appreciate the MRDV properly without it. [1] Or without the ensuing War & Peace-sized volumes of comic/chatlog either, I guess.

[1] http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/mspaintadventures/images...

Another idea that's not supported is the pathological way function scope is interpreted. The two dang functions in the MRDV flow past each other, like a case fall-through [2], but for function scopes. It makes sense artistically in the comic, but I'm not super clear on what it would even mean in terms of a real program.

[2] Only Duff's Device comes to mind here, but I think we're looking at something more pathological with the MRDV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

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