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
  • see also Symbolics Papers & Technical References
• 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

1. ^ Seibel, Peter (2005). Practical Common Lisp. シュプリンガー・ジャパン株式会社. p. xxi. ISBN 1590592395, 9781590592397. http://books.google.com/books?id=Bby4FJy49QUC&pg=PR20&dq=%22David+Moon%22+lisp#v=onepage&q=%22David%20Moon%22%20lisp&f=false. Retrieved 12 August 2010. 
2. ^ "LISP Machine Progress Report". DSpace@MIT. 1977. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5751. Retrieved 1 September 2010. 
3. ^ http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html

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