- Kent Pitman
Kent M. Pitman is the President of [http://www.hypermeta.com HyperMeta, Inc.] and has been involved for many years in the design, implementation and use of Lisp and Scheme systems. He is often better known by his initials KMP.
Kent Pitman is the author of the Common Lisp Condition System [ [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node312.html Guy L. Steele Jr., "Common Lisp: the Language", 2nd ed., Chapter 29] ] as well as of numerous papers on Lisp programming and
computer programming in general.He was a technical contributor to
X3J13 , the ANSI subcommittee that standardizedCommon Lisp and contributed to the design of the programming language. He prepared the document that became ANSICommon Lisp , the [http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html Common Lisp HyperSpec] (a hypertext conversion of the standard), and the document that became ISOISLISP . Kent champions a new paradigm for standards called [http://www.substandards.org Substandards] ; as a background task, he's working on a prototype, but because of his busy work schedule he has not yet deployed it.Kent Pitman is also the author of " [http://www.anotherwayout.com Another Way Out] ", a
parody of theCBS Daytime series "The Young and the Restless ".He can often be found on the
Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp, [ [http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author%3AKent+author%3APitman+group%3Acomp.lang.lisp&start=0&scoring=d Google Groups list of Kent Pitman's posts] ] where he contributes not only expertise in Lisp and computer programming,but also an authoritative perspective on Lisp's evolution and Common Lisp's standardization.In some posts there, he has expressed his opinion onopen-source software ,including open source implementations of Lisp and Scheme,as something that should be judged individually on its essential merits, rather thanautomatically considered good merely by the fact of being free or open.References
External links
* [http://www.nhplace.com/kent/index.html Personal website]
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