AcknowledgementsWe thank Monica Anderson, Arturo Bejar, Danfuzz Bornstein, Tyler Close, Randy Farmer, Gordie Freedman, Michael Glenn, Norm Hardy, David Hopwood, Ken Kahn, Alan Karp, Chip Morningstar, Trevor Morris, Jonathan Rees, Jonathan Shapiro, Scott Smith, Terry Stanley, Marc Stiegler, E-Dean Tribble for conversations and insights which have contributed to these ideas or this paper. Electric Communities, Agorics, Combex, Johns Hopkins University, e-lang, HP, Friday design group. Notes[1] The original being "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." from Alfred North Whitehead in "Science and the Modern World", Macmillan, 1925 or 1929. [2] The original being "Dying is easy, comedy is hard." from Edward Kean, the comedian, on his deathbed. References[Duchier98] Denys Duchier, Leif Kornstaedt, Christian Schulte, Gert Smolka, "A Higher-order Module Discipline with Separate Compilation, Dynamic Linking, and Pickling", 1998 |
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