Can it be described? Well, this is how I did it in a tweet, and the author like it and thanked me.
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Fascinating, very long essay which starts with a discussion of text editors, wanders through software development models & the issues of modernising very old software, & turns into a discussion of intelligence, language & computing.
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Kudos for dedicating time and effort to high quality long form articles - this is something that online needs to revert to.
That said, can you give us a TL;DR if you have a moment :D