It sounds primitive today, but in 1969 it was an effective means of communication.
His last collection, Primitive (1978), was written as Alzheimer's began to take hold of him.
Indeed, while Méliès's special effects seem primitive today, his outlandish humor is much more current.
Engineered mostly by Opel, G.M.'s German division, the primitive 1976 Chevette was haphazardly made, sparsely trimmed and underpowered: its base 1.4-liter engine made only 52 horsepower.
He speaks Italian (although he described his fluency as "primitive" last year), happily offers Roman restaurant recommendations and loves to walk the cobblestone streets.
And Bill Gates showed off a computer program he wrote in the Basic code language a long, long time ago for a video game (involving a car and a donkey) that seemed, well, more than a bit primitive today.
In the book celebrating 50 years of McLaren, the cars of 1988 and 1989, which were on the cutting edge at the time, look primitive today, don't they? A. They do — two-dimensional shapes.
Even if it seems primitive today, its approach scales better than Wolfram's.
However, to prevent commitment to a set-theoretical characterization of the modal operators, Hellman takes these operators as primitive (1989, pp. 17, and 20 23).
Why do crocodilians look so primitive today, when ancient crocodiles displayed "derived" forms (some giant, others slim, erect, and fast-running)?
