Kent Pitman was an early computer scientist and programmer, known for taking over as chair of ANSI common lisp and the common lisp hyperspec. As interviewed on the Lispy Gopher Climate weekly live show by yours truly (screwlisp).
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Kent reads Whither Original Thought, written in 2014 at a writing retreat in Italy, and we discuss the history of Cross-Referenced Editing Facility as described in AIM-829.
Because the show’s Mastodon has been down again, the show had less live audience than it should have. My new mastodon it hosted on HairyLarry’s Instance Gamerplus. Since I cannot log into SDF’s to migrate, please directly follow me there.