MultiJava: design, implementation, and evaluation of a Java-compatible language supporting modular open classes and symmetric multiple dispatch
Curtis Charles Clifton · 2001
to Janet Lamont, for putting an Apple II in front of a scrawny eleven year-old boy and changing his path in life forever, and to Mark Holt, for letting that boy tag-along and seeing him well down his first few years on that path; and• to the developers and sponsors of the tools that have spent the past year running continuously on my desktop--the Kopi Java compiler, the ANTLR translator generator, Emacs, JUnit, and Cygwin.xii