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He doesn't have email.

How much more dead do you want to the programming world? :-P

I guess that falls under Very few programmers ever achieve this level in their own lifetimes.

It's still bad, though.

Eh, I needed that shot of wakeup adrenaline anyway.

Ditto. I did a panicked wikipedia check to make sure I hadn't missed something. Phew.

'Immortal Programmer' might have been a better title for that section.

And neither is Alan Kay.