Lippard.Multics 1985-04-13 23:32:06 mst Sat
Subject:  Star Wars Software
Date:  Saturday, 13 April 1985 20:13 mst
From:  simsong at MIT-CHARON (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Subject:  something for misc-digest
To:  Lippard at HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS via MIT-MULTICS

 (from Time, March 11, 1985)

"...Can a Star Wars system work...? It will take a long time to find
out:... The obstacles are difficult even to conceive, let alone
overcome. One example: tracing enemy missiles, aiming and firing at
them, and then assessing almost instantaneously which ones have been hit
would require a computer program so complex that it is beyond the
ability of human beings to write it unaided. They would have to write
instructions that special computer programs could translate into
detailed Star Wars software."

I wonder if the writer means they're going to use a compiler to write
the "Star Wars software."