iPhone—hold down 0 and ° should be on the pop up.

It’s been swinging for at least 30 years, Toplink came out in 1994, and I have worked on systems that were written half a decade earlier that contained things we’d all call ORMs.

That is superbly done. I can go further back than some here, 1300 is fine, 1200 I can mange okay, but 1100 takes real effort.

Orthography is probably the biggest stumbling block going back to the 1500s or 1400s , but that’s really because the rest of the language has changed in vocabulary and style, but is still understandable. If you think the 1200 or 1100 entry are mostly orthographical changes then you are missing the interesting bits.

I would prefer to see a version that was skillfully translated to modern orthography so that we could appreciate shifts in vocabulary and grammar.

To me, it is nearly like trying to look at a picture book of fashion but the imagery is degraded as you go back. I'd like to see the time-traveler's version with clean digital pictures of every era...

so replace the long s with just s and the thorn (þ) with th? others?

Replace "that thing that looks like a 3" with, eh, "gh" I think.

(Sorry, can't recall for sure, returning to this thread a couple days after reading TFA.)

Having interpreted for a guy speaking with a broad Glaswegian accent on the east coast main line, I can totally believe this.

I believe the lore appropriate term is Abominable Intelligences.

If they want to be lore accurate, then they should also ise them constantly, just in the down low. There is a C'tan in their version of Mars after all

Obviously there isn’t any of that in Warhammer, at least not officially. Even a pretty niche thing for them is probably at a scale where resin casting would make more sense (assuming they aren’t going to sell or license out STL files). There is a decent unofficial scene around alternative weapons load outs and such like, but it’s not going to destroy GW any time soon.

You need more than a simple sandbox for what you describe. You also need to avoid infinite loops or other constructs from causing a DoS or similar, and if you are doing this with the intention of interacting with some other parts of a system then you need to think about how that interaction works and whether there is a way to execute something outside of that sandbox.

Even if you go with something backed by a full time team there is still going to be a chance you have to deal with a security issue in a hurry, maybe in the run up to Christmas. That is just going to come with the territory and if you don’t want to deal with that then you probably need to think about whether you really need a sandbox that can execute untrusted code.

Smalltalk, Lisp, and other image based languages allowed this. I would not recommend it beyond a very restricted idea of patching.