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Harold Varner McIntosh (1929-1915

Jeff Barnett

12/2/2015 4:27:00 AM

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
2 Answers

gengyangcai

12/2/2015 7:18:00 AM

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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

Kenneth Tilton

12/3/2015 1:40:00 PM

0

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 11:26:37 PM UTC-5, 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

It is important to note that his Road to Lisp began by blowing off Lisp after having had a presentation on it. It was his boss that flipped over Lisp and sent Mac back to get the tapes.

Moral there somewhere.

-hk