David Moon
David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and being one of the founders of Symbolics.[1]
Projects
- CLOS
- MIT[2]
- Symbolics, where he developed generational garbage collection algorithms
- Chaosnet
- Apple Computer, where he was involved with the Dylan programming language.
- ObjectStore, an object database system
- PLOT Programming Language for Old Timers, a new dialect of Lisp with the idea of doing everything the right way.
In Pop Culture
David Moon is a character in A Story About ‘Magic',[3] a popular tale in hacker folklore that describes an incident at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in the 1970s.
References
- ↑ Walker, Janet H.; Moon, David A.; Weinreb, Daniel L.; McMahon, Mike (1 November 1987). "The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment". IEEE Software 4 (6): 36–45. doi:10.1109/MS.1987.232087.
- ↑ "LISP Machine Progress Report". DSpace@MIT. 1977. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ↑ http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html