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I want to tell you
one last story about an Irishman, a Scotsman, and an Englishman, (well,
Kiwi), who submitted / wrote an ECOOP / multimethod Paper.
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We were right up
against the page limit with this paper, and hence didn’t have any room for
acknowledgements, so if you’ll indulge more for one more moment, I’d like to
offer some now. (I mean, right up, one more line and we’d have had to shell
out a hundred quid from our own pockets to get the last reference in. I’m one
of … Dave Ungar’s biggest fans, but a hundred quid?).
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This paper has
almost literally been pulled out of the dumpster twice. Ralph and I are
grateful to James Noble for climbing aboard and resurrecting this work. We
are all grateful to Don Roberts, and, in particular, to John Brant, for
providing us with their insidiously / scathingly ingenious Method Wrapper
contraption, without which much of the rest of this work would not have been
demonstrable.
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I gather that the PC
pretty much rescued this paper from their own dumpster as well. Despite that,
more likely because of that fact, we received the most detailed, most
constructive criticism I’ve ever gotten for a conference submission. Andrew
Black wrote ten pages alone. Richard Gabriel, Stephan Ducasse, and Christophe
Dony, and others who chose to remain anonymous provide a wealth of useful
advice.
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We’re grateful as
well to the UIUC Software Architecture Group, who devoted a patterns
conference-style writer’s workshop to this work, and were a font of sagacity
as well, as is there custom.
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In the event I’m not
way over my time slot already, I’d be delighted to take any questions you
might have…
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--BF
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