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Alan Kay is not dead. (Maybe he's one of the "[v]ery few programmers ever [to] achieve this level in their own lifetimes".)

• jcl 18y ago
  Neither, for that matter, is Knuth. I'm sure there are, however, piles of dead COBOL programmers whose code is still in active use. Perhaps Jeff should rethink the category names.
  • arundelo 18y ago
    Oh crap, I knew that! Deepest apologies to Don Knuth, long may he live.