Apparently the co-scriptwriter for the original TRON was(or is) Alan "Smalltalk" Kay's wife. Mr. Kay popularized the idea of object oriented programming. I wonder how that idea impacted the writing of the film, given that the concept of object orientation involves solving a given task with multiple, independent intelligent agents.
source -> The Tron Wiki (see the bottom of the page)
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It's a good thing Mr. Kay didn't write TRON himself or Flynn and the boys would have spent the whole movie manually defining memory pointers :-P
Indeed! Imagine the character's surprise when being competent in a shell and knowing the Vi keystrokes becomes a matter of life-and-death.
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