This was a bit of an eye-opener. We’ve been sorting through old boxes recently, and I came across a bunch of printouts of software I wrote during my undergrad degree (because that’s what we did in those days: print out our work). I pulled out the thickest, opened it randomly, and snapped this pic.
It’s cryptic, to say the least. What language is that? What does it do? What is the larger program’s intent?
Then I Lensed it with the Summarize option. The response came back in milliseconds, the snap of a finger.
That’s exactly what it was. The program was a graph construction and traversal cost package I’d written in Pascal 8000 for CS460, Data Structures, in 1986.
All that from a pic of a small section of obscure code.
Milliseconds.