Recent discussion of another article about Mel: "
The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996) (utah.edu)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44542408 (150 points | 2 days ago | 47 comments) in particular there is a comment by dang with a lot of previos post of different articles about Mel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576608(Note that most/all articles with the title "The Story of Mel" are from the original story form 1983, but this post is about another story about the original story written in 2023.)