:The fact that you are not a native English speaker, as you said, does not preclude you being 100% correct! What an awful sentence that is! Unfortunately, it is attributed as a direct quote to Richard Gabriel in his article. I will look again to see if I can find a source for the quotation, no disrespect intended, as I realize you tried to do that, but that was in 2009.  

 This is just a symptom of a larger problem with this article, it really needs some tidying up and context, particularly as time passes and memories of what was fresh in 1990 become less so. Alternatively, this could be merged into one of several other articles, as other comments on this talk page suggested. Eventually, something should be done, as it is a shame to lose it, but it is difficult to understand as is. 

 Without reading the talk page, I would have lacked the necessary context and background to comprehend the article.