 language was
      an open question at the time. As a mental exercise, Anson Tsao sent around
      some proof-of-concept code which demonstrated that a pure library solution
      might be possible. The code was written in the proposed C++/CLI dialect of
      the time, for which there was no compiler as of yet. I was intrigued by the
      possibility, and I ported his code to Managed C++ and got it working. We worked
      together to refine the idea and eventually published an article about it in
     