After a little travel back in time to the beginning, came across this
discussion and the claim in the article that AutoIt2 was closed source, so, presumably, only the AutoIt devs (Jon and some others?) had access to the source.
Thus it must be the changelogs of early AHK nods to Jon from AutoIt only in the way the functions were wrapped etc. in the finished product, so, unless there was some kind of correspondence with the devs, highly unlikely for any snagging of AutoIt C++ snippets.
In the
farewell post of Chris, no mention of what his plans were next, it looks as if it was retirement, or off-grid entirely. Does anyone know more?
Chris did say he was not keen on objects or array development, these days it's difficult to imagine doing much at all without them!