David Moon

David A. Moon
Born	United States
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Computer scientist
Known for	Lisp programming language, Symbolics

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

↑ Walker, Janet H.; Moon, David A.; Weinreb, Daniel L.; McMahon, Mike (1 November 1987). "The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment". IEEE Software 4 (6): 36–45. doi:10.1109/MS.1987.232087.
↑ "LISP Machine Progress Report". DSpace@MIT. 1977. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
↑ http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html

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