gengyangcai
12/2/2015 7:18:00 AM
RIP , a Lisp hero
On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 12:26:37 PM UTC+8, Jeff Barnett wrote:
> Harold McIntosh died yesterday, November 30, 2015. Some of you old
> timers will remember him. He set up shop in Mexico City at the Technical
> University in the early 1960s when IBM donated a good machine to that
> school. Many of the early US Lisp hackers went there for access to free
> computer time and to work on the development of Formula Algol. Harold
> ducked in and out of the Lisp world for the rest of his life. Many
> credit him with helping Mexico to an early entrance to the computer age.
> He and his contributions will be missed.
> --
> Jeff Barnett