Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.
You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e. g. , the poem "C. " I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.