# Executable Archaeology of Programs That Model Programming: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)

**Published:** October 28, 2026
**Author:** Jeff Shrager, Kent M. Pitman, Mia Golec
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.36341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early AI programs were often also theories of how people think, and programs that wrote programs were, in part, theories of how people program. Here we report on the reanimation of two such programs that offer two seemingly…

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