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A comment on Ask HN: Who are the Alpha Geeks you follow?.

Re:Ask HN: Who are the Alpha Geeks you follow? by MaysonL on Thursday February 18, 2010 @05:44PM (#1135554)
Alan Kay, and his colleagues at vpri.org

Gilad Bracha, and the newspeak crew at newspeaklanguage.org

Terry Jones, at fluidinfo.com

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the Alpha Geeks you follow? by rrc on Friday February 19, 2010 @04:54AM (#1136550)
I really liked Gilad Bracha's presentation on Newspeak. His concept libraries as a nested class structure, with the ability to override just a single nested class seems like a great forking mechanism to encourage reuse.
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