That was a scam or at least overblown in scope, the "control room" you see in pictures was basically a movie prop, and their idea was basically to connect that room to every factory/port/mine with teletypes, it's similar in spirit to what a modern stock should do.
Maybe if they haven't been bombed to death very soon afterwards, control room and everything, for trying to make things better for their population and kicking out foreign neocolonialists, would have gotten an update.
OP described a simple 2-line fix that would have been annoying to find by hand. That's a matter of heuristic search. The majority of problems in software engineering do not fall in this category.
Sure, if the cops seize your phone from you and try to suck out its data, then they clearly already know your precise location. But in some situations you would've been able to avoid getting your phone sucked out by the cops if they hadn't been able to purchase precise location data about where you were in the hours/days/weeks leading up to that.
There is scope for cautious optimism. Certainly the changes in train around the world (and being wound back in the US) are well and truly heading in the right direction, and at pace. It's a matter of perspective.
Halfway to anywhere, but the window to anywhere is quite small. For Mars, I think it's only a few weeks every two years or so. So having a lot of mass already halfway there when the window opens would be quite advantageous.
The "syntax extension" thing is precisely the reason I have an interest in (and advocacy for) Common Lisp.
Be that as it may, for C++, Eric Neibler's [Boost.Proto](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/doc/html/proto.html) could likely help conveniently connect syntax to implementation to achieve something similar to what the author is taking about.
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