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> A "type-in" computer version of the game for the BBC Micro was included in the April 1985 edition of The Micro User.

Excellent.

There is an esoteric programming language inspired by this: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent

(It can sometimes be seen at codegolf.stackexchange.com)

I've been teaching myself Rust by writing a Lisp interpreter (I've successfully achieved recursive function calls) but I may have to put this on pause and write an interpreter for Mornington Crescent, in Rust, and then see if I can use that to build a Lisp interpreter.

I may skip Tail Call Optimisation, though.

that's okay, i think Rust skipped that part, too

Also available here under c:games

https://xkcd.com/1975/

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